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Police Deploy 21,084 Personnel For Anambra Governorship Election

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: September 12, 2017
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The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has announced that the force would deploy 21,084 policemen to Anambra for the November 28 governorship election.

Idris made the announcement on Tuesday at the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room Dialogue session in Abuja.

According to the IGP, 17,320 policemen would be deployed to the 4,330 polling units across the state while 280 of them would be deployed to the collation centres.

The inspector-general said 2,484 of the security agents would be deployed to 414 major streets in the state throughout the election period.

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He disclosed that the Force Headquarters would provide additional 300 vehicles to the 80 operational vehicles in the Police Command in Anambra.

The police boss said that extra security arrangements were being made for some flash and vulnerable points in the state.

He listed the areas to include: Otuocha, Ihiala towns, as well as Onitsha North and Onitsha South Local Government areas.

Others are Achala in Awka North, Ekwulobia in Orumba and Ozubulu in Ekwusigo Local Government Areas respectively.

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