Busari Kabirat
CP Hussaini Gumel, the Commissioner of Police Kano State, had on Wednesday, while addressing newsmen ahead of the polls, assured residents of Kano State of his readiness to give adequate security for the February 3 election rerun in the three state which includes three constituencies across six local government areas of the state.
CP Gumel, made it known that the police and other security agencies in the state are already working on ensuing a free/ fair election and an effective operational order on how to provide security at each of the polling units had already been worked out for implementation.
He said: “We have mobilised sufficient armed personnel to provide security before, during and after the election.
”I am giving 100 per cent assurance to all law-abiding residents of the constituencies, that they can go about freely to exercise their franchise on Feb. 3 without threat to lives and property.”
“We have put in place various security measures to enable residents have the opportunity to participate in electing leaders of their choice without threat to lives and property.”
“We will not tolerate any act capable of bringing confusion before, during and after the by-election, any person or groups found disobeying orders will be arrested and prosecuted.”
Amb. Abdu Zango, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), also said that arrangements had been concluded for the conduct of the election re-run in the affected three state constituencies, listed as: Kunchi/Tsanyawa, Kura/Garun Malam and Rimin Gado/Tofa.
He stated: “We are fully ready for the re-run elections, with our trained electoral personnel ready to conduct transparent and credible elections in the six local government areas.
“We are conducting elections in 66 polling units across the six local government areas. Any person without a permanent voters card will not participate in the re-run elections.”
“We have prepared and equipped our personnel with basic electoral knowledge for the conduct of free, fair and transparent elections.”
