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By Christopher Oji
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Usman Alkali Baba, has assured that the Force was ready for the 2023 general elections.
The IGP also assured Nigerians of safety during and after the elections. He said the force will deploy more sweepers before the election to reclaim more public spaces.
The IGP, who spoke during the commissioning of the newly built IGP Usman Alkali Baba Explosive Ordnance Disposal – Combined Joint Chemical, Biological and Nuclear (EOD-CBRN) conference hall and transit camp in Lagos, said all necessary equipment were ready, adding that other security trainings were being organised for the police ahead of the 2023 elections.
“Nigerians should expect better security in the upcoming general elections. I assure you that EOD will perform better than the way it used to be. That is why the police management team is more concerned about the training of personnel of the EOD.
“The training enhances their performance because where there is no training, there will be a problem.
“But I want to assure you that with the training we are giving to the personnel of EOD, Nigeria should expect a better performance. As it is, we are deploying more sweepers across the state, to reclaim more public spaces. We have been reclaiming more spaces in the Northeast. We will continue to do it before and after the elections.
The IGP, who was represented by the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in-charge of Operations, Mr. Bala Zama Senchi, said: “However, I want to state clearly that all these commissioning and development of new equipment are projects that show that we are preparing very well ahead of the 2023 general elections, to ensure that Nigerians will go to bed and have their eyes closed. I want to emphasise that the police are putting everything in place for the security of Nigerians.
“Nigerians should expect good results from us. As we did it in Anambra, Osun and Ekiti states, we will replicate what we did in those states in the general elections.”
Speaking on the circulation of EOD equipment around Nigeria before the 2023 election, the DIG stated that the commissioning in Lagos was not the only one, thus far, in Nigeria.
He also assured Nigeria of legal distributions of explosives, saying that anyone who does not have business with explosives would not be allowed to have them. He appealed to members of the public to play their part in ensuring that there would be no explosion in the country.
