The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has said that the national security interest overrides personal interest and as such, in line with the directives of President Muhammadu Buhari, the election shall be policed in a civil manner with full compliance with the rule of law.
Baba said this today during a conference with Strategic Managers of the Nigeria Police Force comprising Deputy Inspectors-General of Police and members of the Force Management Team, Assistant Inspectors-General of Police and Commissioners of Police across the nation at the Force Headquarters, Abuja.
The Conference, which is the first for the year 2023, is targeted at reviewing the internal security of the country and reassess the NPF’s strategies towards the imminent 2023 General Elections.
According to the IGP, the conference with Strategic Managers in Nigeria Police Force is important as it is in the quest to achieve an ideal environment for safe, secured and credible 2023 General Elections.
He tasked the Strategic Police Managers to safeguard the public space for the elections in active synergy with other security agencies. While charging them to make certain that quasi-security outfits created and owned by state governments are precluded from the election duty.
The IGP also warned all officers to remain apolitical in ensuring free, fair and credible elections.
SpyeTV News reports that, the conference with Strategic Managers of the Nigeria Police Force took place immediately after the commissioning ceremony of 127 critical operational assets that procured within the Special Presidential Intervention funds for the Nigeria Police Force.
