The Police on Wednesday faulted a report recently released by the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the rerun Rivers
legislative election.
The report indicted the police and other security agencies.
Reacting to the report, the police in a statement issued by the Force
Spokesman, CSP Jimoh Moshood, maintained that the Force is apolitical,
will not engage in any political partisanship and will continue to
ensure that election security is guaranteed across the country.
The statement reads: “The attention of the Nigeria Police Force has
been drawn to a report on pages 1 and 4 of The Nation Newspaper of
today, 22nd February, 2017 titled: “ INEC REPORT ON RIVERS RERUN INDICTS
POLICE, OTHERS.”
“The Nigeria Police Force as the lead agency in election security in
the country recognizes the need to ensure that the rule of law, policing
based on International core values with integrity, principles of
democratic policing in conformity with the electoral acts prevail in all
its operations as regard elections, and protection of life and property
across the nation.
“Consequent on the conduct of the Rivers Rerun Election of 10th
December, 2017, and the attendant irregularities and violence witnessed
during the election, the Nigeria Police Force acted promptly and
proactively by the setting up and inauguration of a joint investigative
panel, made up of senior police officers and officers of Department of
State Security Service with proven integrity by the Inspector General of
Police, on the 22nd December, 2016, to investigate all the
misconducts, identified infractions, incidents of violence and other
actions and inactions of police personnel and INEC Officials, other
security agencies and stakeholders who were deployed for the 10th
December, 2016 Rivers rerun election.
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