The Nigerian Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Usman Baba, has announced that he has made a deployment of a special police team which would be headed by Mr Johnson Kokumo who is the Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) in charge of the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) to Osun State, ahead of their July 16 gubernatorial elections in the state.
CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi who is the Force Public Relations Officer who had also disclosed this in a statement added that Kokumo who is also the supervisory DIG for the South-West, would be assisted by four Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) during the election.
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The IG had also revealed that four Commissioners of Police (CPs), 15 Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs) and 30 Assistant Commissioners of Police were also deployed for the exercise.
According to him, adequate police personnel of the rank of Chief Superintendents of Police and below have equally been deployed for the election. He said Kokumo would oversee the implementation of the Operation Order evolved from the Election Security Threat Assessment.
Adejobi said the idea was to ensure a peaceful and conducive environment, devoid of violence for law abiding citizens to freely perform their civic responsibilities without molestation or intimidation.
He said other senior officers deployed would coordinate human and other operational deployments in the three senatorial districts, 30 local government areas and 3,753 polling units in the state.
Adejobi said the CP and Provost Marshall at the Force Headquarters, Mr Julius Alawari, had been temporarily deployed to Osun for the election and would be there until the conclusion of the exercise.
He said the CP in charge of Osun, Mr Olokode Olawale, had been temporarily moved to the Force Headquarters.
The police spokesman hathatd also revealed the I-G would on Tuesday, meet with stakeholders in Osogbo, adding that the operational deployments were part of actions aimed at creating a conducive and enabling environment for the election.