The proactive disposition of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) by instituting a situation room for the Ekiti guber polls is yielding results, National Association of Online Security News Publishers, NAOSNP can report.
This is because two persons have been arrested in Ado Local Government; one in connection with vote buying while the other was arrested in connection with thuggery to disrupt voting at a polling unit. The proactive nature also resulted in overt and covert deployment of NSCDC personnel to Ekiti State for a hitch-free gubernatorial election.
This was made known through a press statement e-signed and released to the National Association of Online Security News Publishers, NAOSNP by the NSCDC Spokesperson, DCC Olusola Odumosu when the Acting Deputy Commandant General Operations (Ag.DCG Ops), Haruna Lawal Muhammed, fdc, paid a visit to the State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr Tella Adeniran Rahmon at the INEC office in the course of election monitoring duty in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State
While applauding the efforts of the Corp, the REC affirmed that he was impressed as NSCDC officials were deployed in real time to polling booths which opened early for accreditations and commended the Corps leadership for mobilizing large numbers of personnel to participate actively in the security training organized by INEC and identification of possible flashpoints for peculiar attention among other landmark duties.
The Ag. DCG operations, on his part assured that the Corps would continue to work closely with INEC and other sister agencies to ensure a hitch-free election process. Reiterating that the Corps is doing its best to secure INEC permanent and ad-hoc staff, electorates, election observers as well as sensitive and non sensitive election materials in the State.
“The turnout for the election is impressive in most polling units we have visited and reports received from other Local Government Areas also revealed that voting is going on smoothly simultaneously; NSCDC is fully prepared to protect the people and Critical National Assets, our reserved personnel are on standby in case of any emergency and when the poll closes, our men on the ground would be deployed throughout the night, to ensure 24 hours security coverage of the state,” he said.
The Acting DCG operations called on residents to maintain orderly conduct after exercising their franchise and refrain from violence when the votes are counted as the Corps had deployed intelligence officers to possible flash points for effective intelligence gathering and management of security situation.
