By ‘Wole Adedeji, Ilorin
The Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, Zone 8, Lokoja, comprising Kogi and Kwara states, AIG Asafa Adekunle has read a riot act to the Police Tactical Team, asking them to ensure all round security
throughout the elections in Kwara State.
The AIG, who led two other Police Commissioners and a Deputy Commissiner of Police to secure Kwara State all through the election time, began his assignment by going straight to join the Independent Natıonal Electoral Commission, INEC, Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Mallam Garuba Madami, in the supervision of a peace accord signing ceremony by political parties.
From the peace accord signing ceremony, the AIG headed to the Police Kwara State Command, where he pointedly told officers and men of the force that he and the CPs were in the state to ensure a seamless electoral process.
The police chief, while delivering the message of the Inspector General of Police, IGP, to the Kwara State Police Tactical Teams, hammered on the point that the IGP instructed that he, the IGP, has zero tolerance to any form of indiscipline by any police man and that he was specially interested in the conduct of a peaceful, credible, and acceptable election.
Ashafa advised the team leaders to ensure that every policeman deployed for the election duty must take his duties seriously, emphasizing that any act of dereliction of duty on the part of any policeman during the course of the elections would be met with stiff sanctions.
He told the officers and their men that the IGP had made efforts possible to ensure that officers and men’s welfare gets to them fully before the elections, and as such, there must be no room for excuse to fail.
While speaking, the Kwara State Commissioner of Police, CP Paul Odama, and CP Arungwa Kwazul, in their separate remarks harped on the need for a sense of unity and teamwork by officers and men of the command if the desired goal must be achieved
He enjoined citizens and residents of Kwara State to be rest assured of their safety and security before, during and after the election, while also advising members of the public to shun any act of lawlessness, warning that any person arrested for any criminal activities, particularly during this election time, would be made to face the full wrath of the law.
