One hundred and twenty people involved in various electoral
Force Public Relations Officers (PPRO), ACP Frank Mba, disclosed this yesterday in a live national radio programme, “Police Diary,” monitored by the Daily Sun.
Mba said that 38 types of weapons,
According to Mba, the recovery of the weapons largely helped the police to control security across the country during the exercise.
Mba explained that the seizure of the IED-making materials accounted for why explosions were not experienced anywhere in the South-West, South-South, South-East and North-Central parts of Nigeria.
“That massive interception by Delta State Police Command actually helped us to nip in the bud various dangerous things that could have occurred. Probably, we would have had a lot of problems on our hands during that elections but, thankfully, that interception was made,” he said.
While he stated that investigation had commenced
“What I want to assure Nigerians this time around is that they will see clear cases of diligent prosecution of electoral offenders. We need to begin to take measures and take actions that will send a strong message out there that election offences are serious offences and that when you commit electoral offences you will not go scot-free. That is the only way we can begin to stamp out impunity gradually,” he promised.
“We had cases where very senior police officers were attacked, amounting to
“Nigerians need to support us in this
“We didn’t record any situation where law enforcement agents turned their guns on the people. We didn’t record incidents of ‘accidental discharge.’ We didn’t record incidents of excessive use of force by law enforcement agencies. I think these are areas we must be given kudos. We were able to protect all election observers,” Mba said.