Security Agencies Encourage Thuggery During Election - INEC
Fri Jan 10, 2020 02:28:pm National
1K By Afam Jude Offor
Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said that the failure of security agencies to act decisively and collaborate with one another usually encourages thuggery during elections.
The INEC boss made the disclosure on Friday, January 10, during the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) meeting held at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. It was gathered that Yakubu also said that the security agencies have in some cases focused more on the number of personnel deployed for elections rather than on synergy and strategies to be adopted. He said: “The commission is concerned that security deployment in some of the most recent elections left much to be desired. There is more emphasis on numbers of security personnel to be deployed but less consideration on strategic deployment to protect the process, leaving the voters, election officials, party agents, observers, the media and even unarmed security personnel at polling units vulnerable to attacks by thugs and hoodlums. “Furthermore, there is an emphasis on numbers of security personnel but less on synergy, coordination and collaboration among the various security agencies in line with the purpose for which ICCES was established in the first instance.” Yakubu said the committee must work towards a new approach in the forthcoming re-run elections for Nigerians to see a qualitatively different security arrangement. “No thugs and hoodlums can be more powerful than the Nigeria Police and other security agencies. “It is the failure to act decisively and collaboratively that encourages thuggery and serves as an incentive for bad behaviour," he added. According to him Ibrahim Magu and Bolaji Owasanoye, heads of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) were being admitted as members of ICCES to help tackle vote-buying during elections.
The INEC boss made the disclosure on Friday, January 10, during the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) meeting held at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. It was gathered that Yakubu also said that the security agencies have in some cases focused more on the number of personnel deployed for elections rather than on synergy and strategies to be adopted. He said: “The commission is concerned that security deployment in some of the most recent elections left much to be desired. There is more emphasis on numbers of security personnel to be deployed but less consideration on strategic deployment to protect the process, leaving the voters, election officials, party agents, observers, the media and even unarmed security personnel at polling units vulnerable to attacks by thugs and hoodlums. “Furthermore, there is an emphasis on numbers of security personnel but less on synergy, coordination and collaboration among the various security agencies in line with the purpose for which ICCES was established in the first instance.” Yakubu said the committee must work towards a new approach in the forthcoming re-run elections for Nigerians to see a qualitatively different security arrangement. “No thugs and hoodlums can be more powerful than the Nigeria Police and other security agencies. “It is the failure to act decisively and collaboratively that encourages thuggery and serves as an incentive for bad behaviour," he added. According to him Ibrahim Magu and Bolaji Owasanoye, heads of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) were being admitted as members of ICCES to help tackle vote-buying during elections.
There is more emphasis
on numbers of security personnel to be deployed but less consideration
on strategic deployment to protect the process, leaving the voters,
election officials, party agents, observers, the media and even unarmed
security personnel at polling units vulnerable to attacks by thugs and
hoodlums.
“Furthermore, there is an emphasis on numbers of security personnel but
less on synergy, coordination and collaboration among the various
security agencies in line with the purpose for which ICCES was
established in the first instance.”
Yakubu said the committee must work towards a new approach in the
forthcoming re-run elections for Nigerians to see a qualitatively
different security arrangement.
“No thugs and hoodlums can be more powerful than the Nigeria Police and
other security agencies.
“It is the failure to act decisively and collaboratively that encourages
thuggery and serves as an incentive for bad behaviour," he added.
According to him Ibrahim Magu and Bolaji Owasanoye, heads of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent
Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) were
being admitted as members of ICCES to help tackle vote-buying during
elections. Read more: https://www.legit.ng/1291827-inec-releases-stunning-revelation-security-agencies-encourage-thuggery-elections.html
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