The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Solomon Arase, has directed police commissioners to provide adequate security at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) offices and also at election tribunal sittings nationwide.


Arase said this when he visited the INEC headquarters yesterday in Abuja, where he met with the commission’s acting Chairperson, Mrs. Amina Zakari.

The IG said the visit was aimed at cementing the existing relationship between the police and INEC in ensuring the actualisation of the commission’s mandate, according to a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Bisi Kolawole.
Mrs. Zakari used the occasion to intimate the visiting IG of INEC’s readiness to work with the police in ensuring successes on the forthcoming elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States.


In another development, the IG had given state commissioners of police a one-week ultimatum to report on their compliance to earlier directives on the withdrawal of policemen attached to unauthorised persons across the country