BY TheCable
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over the national security council meeting at the presidential villa, Abuja.
The agenda of the meeting is to review the security situation in the country ahead of the general election.
The national security council advises the president on public security issues.
Prior to the commencement of the meeting, the president launched security equipment donated by the Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID).
The presidential and national assembly elections are expected to take place on Saturday, February 25.
Usman Baba, the inspector-general of police (IGP), had recently said 404,106 security operatives will be mobilised for the election.
Baba said the security operatives will include officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Federal Road Service Corps (FRSC), Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
“From INEC’s records, there exist 176,846 polling units in the 8,809 wards of the 36 states and the federal capital territory, which elections will be conducted,” he had said.
“The Nigeria police, with support from other security agencies, have perfected plans to deploy in a coordinated and collaborated manner to cover all locations.
“The deployment will cover the national collation centre in Abuja as well as other collation centres across the states of the federation, FCT, and 774 LGAs.
“In view of the above, the Nigeria police will deploy 310,973 personnel for election security operations. The manpower required for this exercise will be completed by the military and other security agencies.
“In this regard, aside from the military and DSS, other security agencies would contribute a total of 93,495 personnel for the election security operations.
“This includes Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps who will deploy 51,000 personnel; FRSC, 21,000; Nigerian Correctional Service, 11,336; NDLEA, 9,447; EFCC, 350, totalling 404,106.”
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