Despite the controversy surrounding the need to
deploy soldiers for the forthcoming elections or
not, the Independent National Electoral
Commission has included 19 military Generals
and 42 other senior officers from the Armed
Forces in its 428-man Inter-agency Consultative
Committee on Election Security.
The ICCES was established by INEC to review,
coordinate and manage security during the
forthcoming elections in the country.
Other members of the ICCES, according to INEC,
are the Police Force, Department of State
Security, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence
Corps, National Drug Law and Enforcement
Agency, National Youth Service Corps, National
Intelligence Agency, Nigeria Prisons, Nigeria
Customs Service and Nigeria Immigration
Service.
Saturday PUNCH investigation revealed that the
428-man security committee, spread across the
36 states of the federation and the Federal
Capital Territory, Abuja, include a 61-member
contingent of Generals and officers from the
Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy and Nigerian Air
Force.
Source: Punch
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