Lagos State Police Command has intelligence information that some persons are planning to come into the state posing as Police and Military Officers during the elections.

According to the Command, the perpetrators have sown Police and Military uniforms in some other locations with the intent to scuttle the elections.

Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal who said this after a joint meeting with the heads of the security agencies in the state and the Independent Electoral Commission,INEC, Resident Electoral Commissioner for Lagos State at the command headquarters, Ikeja, Lagos, however said they were still trying to substantiate the claim.

Edgal, warned that if such a move was being contemplated, whoever was contemplating such should jettison it because the security agencies were resolved and had put in place both overt and covert moves and strategies to ensure that they were arrested and made to face the full weight of the law.

He said the meeting also shared intelligence and one piece of intelligence that resonate during the meeting was the fact that they had gotten some feelers which they were still trying to substantiate that some persons were planning to come into the state posing as Police and Military Officers having sown Police and Military uniforms in some other locations.

Edgal also noted that after the initial embarrassment occasioned by some factors in the last flag off of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governorship campaign rally in the state, the security agencies have learnt some lessons and had taken cognisance of the lapses noticed.

He said every rally was now handled with proper security checks, profiling before anybody gains any form of admittance into any area designated for a rally to prevent a situation where people move around with small arms threatening the electoral process.

The Commissioner therefore assured Lagosians that the security agencies had covered the basics as well as made proper arrangements for security not only for the entire state but to cover all the areas where actual voting would take place while asking Lagosians to cooperate with the security forces to make the process peaceful and guarantee a free and fair elections.

In the same vein, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Lagos State, Sam Olumekun appreciated the security agencies in the state for coming up with a detailed profile of all the officers who were going to be involved with security duties during the forthcoming election describing it as proactive and commendable.

He revealed that INEC in the state would commence training of all ad-hoc staff theat the commission was going to use for the election saying, “As you know, training is very crucial and important. So, we will start training them tomorrow, all categories of officials that we will use for the elections are to be trained”.
“I want to assure Lagosians that we are determined to conduct a very credible election that we all will be proud of and one which will be better than all the elections that we have conducted in the past. That is the message and I assure you that we are doing everything possible within the ambit of the law to make sure that we conduct a seamless election in February and March”, Edgal concluded.
Highlight of the briefing was the official hand over to the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Lagos State, Mr. Sam Olumekun, a complete and total list of deployment by name and phone numbers of Policemen to all the polling stations in Lagos State by the Commissioner of Police Lagos State.