Nigeria Police will deploy twenty-one thousand and eighty-four policemen to Anambra for the November twenty-eight governorship election.

According to the police, seventeen thousand, three hundred and twenty policemen will be deployed to the four thousand three hundred and thirty polling units across the state while two hundred and eighty of them will be deployed to the collation centres.

Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris made this known at the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room Dialogue session in Abuja, saying two thousand four hundred and eighty-four of the security agents would be deployed to four hundred and fourteen major streets in the state throughout the election period.

Idris said the Force Headquarters would provide additional three hundred vehicles to the eighty operational vehicles in the Police Command in Anambra.

He said additional police mobile force units had also been deployed to Anambra and other states in the South-East and South-South for the governorship election.

Idris the deployment was to ensure criminal elements were removed from the states before the election, saying extra security arrangements were being made for some flash and vulnerable points in the state.

He listed the areas to include: Otuocha, Ihiala towns, as well as Onitsha North, Onitsha South Local Government areas, Achala in Awka North, Ekwulobia in Orumba and Ozubulu in Ekwusigo Local Government Areas.

According to him, the deployment would build and increase the confidence of the people of the state in the police and other security agencies to protect them.

I want to assure you that all necessary manpower and logistics to secure the electorate, electoral officials, monitors, observers and materials have been provided for the command.

Idris said the police commissioner in Anambra had been instructed to carry along the state Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security, in the deployment and implementation of security arrangements for the poll.

He said the command had also been directed to work with the Police Community Relations Committee,PCRC, the Eminent Persons Forum and local associations in the state to ensure peace and order.

Idris said there was a need for collaboration and synergy among Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in engendering secured environment for credible elections in the country.

These areas of cooperation will be further strengthened towards the 2019 general election and beyond“ he said.

Idris said no group under any guise would be allowed to cause violence, before, during and after the election.

He attributed the successes recorded in the Edo and Ondo governorship elections and the National Assembly re-runs in Imo, Kogi and Rivers in 2016, to the support and cooperation of the CSOs.