A total of 12,000 conventional and mobile policemen have been deployed for tomorrow’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in Kaduna state.
This is according to the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmad Abdurahman who disclosed this while addressing journalists in his office on the security arrangement for the election.
He says that the police personnel will be deployed to all polling units across the 23 local government areas and identified flash-points in the state, and will be assisted by other security agencies agencies like the Immigration, Civil Defence and Federal Road Safety Corps.
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He also warns members of the vigilante services to stay away from polling units as anybody caught will be arrested in accordance with the law.
Meanwhile, the independent National Electoral Commission in the state , says it has concluded redistribution of voting materials across the 23 local government areas of the state after their withdrawal following the postponement of the February 16 election.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Abdullahi Kaugama told our correspondent that all logistics challenges have been sorted out except for some mix up of voting materials in four local government areas of Kachia, Kaduna North, Birnin Gwari and Chikun.
On the safety of the members of the National Youth Service Corps who are taking part in the conduct of the election, Kaugama says none of them will be deployed to crisis prone areas like Birnin Gwari and Kajuru local government areas where there have been security issues before now.
