…Says Police Performance Is Satisfactory
The Police Service Commission (PSC), on Sunday declared that the conduct of the Police in the Saturday, June 18, 2022 Ekiti Governorship election was a huge improvement and a good test-run for the 2023 General elections.
The Commission specifically said that the election was largely peaceful and orderly, stressing that the Nigeria Police Force, being the lead agency, in collaboration with sister agencies, such as the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, DSS, Federal Road Safety Commission among others were professional and their conduct satisfactory.
These were contained in a statement by Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations of the Police Service Commission which also stated that the Police promptly intervened in some reported cases of vote buying and crowd misbehaviour and showed adequate presence in most of the polling Units.
The statement further stated; “The Commission monitored the conduct of the Police in the 16 Local Government Areas of the State where the Commission’s Monitors confirmed that the Police teams arrived the Polling Units on time and were civil and courteous in their conduct.
“Deputy Inspector General of Police, Johnson Kokumo-led the Security team for the election and ensured that deployments were timely and well organized.
“There was an average of two to five Police Officers in most of the polling Units visited by the Commission’s Monitors.
“There was massive deployment of Police Officers from different Commands and formations of the Force and this gave the voters a sense of security,” it stated.
