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EDO ELECTION: IGP Orders Restriction Of Vehicles

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IGP has assured Edo citizens of maximum security ahead of the Saturday poll.
News Rain gathered that the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammad Adamu, has assured the Edo State citizens of adequate security ahead of Saturday gubernatorial election.
The IGP also ordered the restriction of vehicular movements from 11:59 Pm on Friday, 18th September 2020 – 6 pm on Saturday, 19th September 2020.
IGP Adamu made the disclosure through a Press Statement that was issued and signed by the Public Relations Officer of the Force Headquarters Abuja, DCP. Frank Mba, who stated the directive is in line with concerted efforts towards ensuring public order and safety during the forthcoming Edo Gubernatorial election that is scheduled for tomorrow Saturday, 19th September 2020.
However, the IGP used the statement to  urge the citizens to go out en-masse on the day of the election and vote, stressing that the Police and other security agencies have been sufficiently mobilized to provide a safe, secure and conducive environment for the election.”
The statement which quoted IGP Adamu that the restriction order is informed by the need to prevent the free flow, circulation, and use of illicit arms and hard drugs and checkmate the movement of political thugs and touts and other criminally-minded individuals especially from contiguous States from hijacking and disrupting the electoral processes.
IGP, in the statement also pleaded to the entire citizenry of the State, over inconveniences of the restriction of vehicular order, he stated that “while regretting any inconveniences the restriction order may cause the citizens,  I also enjoin you all to see the restriction as part of necessary sacrifices towards the enthronement of democracy.
IGP Adamu also used the medium to give a stern warning to the State citizens to desist from any criminal act before, during, and after the election, he noted that the Force will not sit idly by and watch citizens who may want to engage in any criminal act – violent and destructive acts, snatching of ballot boxes, vote-buying, vote-selling, hate speeches, and other act(s) capable of disrupting the entire electoral processes in the State.
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