Kogi, Bayelsa elections: IGP speaks on arrests made during and after polls

- IGP says 49 persons have been arrested for alleged involvement in election violence and thuggery in Kogi and Bayelsa states

- According to the police boss, 35 people were arrested in Bayelsa

- This was disclosed at the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES)

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has given updates on the numbers of arrest made during Kogi and Bayelsa governorship elections.

According to the police boss, 49 persons have been arrested for alleged involvement in election violence and thuggery in the elections.

The IGP, who was represented by Bashir Makama, the assistant inspector general of police, disclosed this on Wednesday, December 11, at the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) meeting held at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja.

He said 35 persons were arrested for election violence in Bayelsa state.

Premium Times reports that this implies that the remaining 14 were arrested in Kogi.

”As regards Bayelsa elections, the deployed officers deployed to the oil-rich state is 31,041 that were assigned for the assignment, after which they were incidents of violence in the state,

”Some persons that were arrested for election violations are 35 in number and they are being investigated in the zonal police headquarters in Benin city,” he said.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that the Adamu on Tuesday, November 19, disclosed that the uniformed men who disrupted electoral processes in Bayelsa and Kogi states were fake policemen.

The IGP stated this while briefing journalists in the presidential villa after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.

According to him, some politicians had sewn police uniforms for their supporters during the elections to disrupt the process in their favour.

Photos and videos of armed uniformed men had surfaced on the internet, showing them disrupting the exercise in several areas.

The IGP insisted that those in the circulated photos and videos are not the personnel officially deployed for election duties by the police force.

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Recall that the Centre for Transparency Advocacy (CTA) called on the INEC to cancel the Saturday, November 16 governorship election in Kogi state.

The group made the call hours after a civil society organisation, YIAGA AFRICA, alleged that the credibility of Kogi elections had been compromised by political parties and security agencies and as a result called for the cancellation of the polls.

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