INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF POLICE, IGP, USMAN ALKALI BABA ASSURES OF TIGHT SECURITY AHEAD OF OSUN ELECTION

The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has deployed senior police officers for the July 16 governorship election in Osun State, promising tight security for the exercise. He also moved the Osun State Commissioner of Police, Olokode Taoheed Olawale, temporarily to the Force Headquarters until the conclusion of the election. Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday, saying the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of the Force Criminal Investigation Department, FCID, Johnson Babatunde Kokumo will supervise the election.

To assist Kokumo are four Assistant Inspectors-General of Police, four Commissioners of Police, fifteen Deputy Commissioners of Police, and thirty Assistant Commissioners of Police. As means of boosting security for the exercise, the IGP further noted that the personnel, comprising conventional police officers, Police Mobile Force, PMF, Counter Terrorism Unit, CTU, Special Forces personnel, among others, will be on the ground to guarantee free, fair, credible and acceptable election.