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#OsunDecides2022: Over 11,000 NSCDC Personnel Deployed For Osun Election — Ahmed Audi
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has disclosed that 30,000 operatives will be deployed to ensure peace during the upcoming 2023 general elections.
The 2023 general election will take place in February 2023.
A total of 18 political parties have fielded their candidates.
Speaking at the flagship News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja on Sunday, the Commandant-General of the NSCDC, Dr Ahmed Audi, said the operatives would be deployed nationwide to maintain peace.
According to him, the NSCDC has perfected plans to deploy all resources needed to provide security during the election.
“We have an operations department of over 30,000 personnel but then we will also deploy others when the time comes.
“Normally, we have the bulk of our people in operations and those who are in operations partake in election processes,” he said.
Audi said that the corps had also perfected plans to begin seminars and workshops in October to discuss the preparedness of the organization for the general elections.
“We want to tell our people that if you go and involve yourself by becoming partisan you are on your own.
“There are certain things we have introduced in our Standard Operating Procedure — that once you go partisan and you are caught, you will face sanctions and you are on your own.
“So we are ready to partake in the election like I said because we are apolitical and we are going to provide a level-playing field for all citizens to be involved in the elections and exercise their franchise.”
Audi said that the NSCDC partook in election activities because it’s a member of the Inter-agency, Consultative Committee on Election Security.
“Police is the lead agency actually because it’s a fact that they are in charge of internal security but we have other services in that committee which includes the military, para-military and virtually all security agencies.
“We are ready and you know that our role as a security agency is supposed to be apolitical and neutral,” he said.
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