Usman Baba who is the Inspector-General of Police has expressly approved the establishment of the Electoral Offences Desk at the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID).
The office will be supervised from the Force Headquarters in Abuja, with the Commissioner of Police, FCID, as the Desk Officer.
Baba equally approved that the unit is set up at State Commands nationwide, Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi announced on Tuesday.
The Assistant Commissioners of Police in charge of the Criminal Investigation Departments will serve as State Desk Officers.
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The officers are expected to collate and investigate all electoral offences and complaints from members of the public
They will determine the strength and proffer charges before courts of competent jurisdiction for necessary legal action.
The IGP tasked the unit to commence its activities immediately with cases recorded during the pre-election activities such as screening, conventions, primaries, etc.
In a similar report, the Police in Nasarawa State has arrested twenty-four suspected political thugs.
They were apprehended by Keffi Area Command officers at Minki Suites, along Keffi-Akwanga Road.
In a statement on Tuesday, Force spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi said the suspects were working for a 2023 aspirant
Adejobi disclosed that the politician contested in the Nasarawa West Senatorial primaries.
The police acted on intelligence after a convoy of seven private vehicles entered the hotel.
Items recovered include eight pump action guns, two locally-made revolver guns, thirty-seven rounds of live cartridges, and four bulletproof vests.
Others are twenty-seven mobile phones, two pairs of vigilante uniforms, five cutlasses, and ten assorted knives and charms.
Adejobi added that the thugs “carry out their heinous acts under the guise of being members of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN)”.
