Police warn against registration of underage children
The Commissioner
of Police in Sokoto state Abubakar Manku, on Sunday threatened to
prosecute any officer that register underage children in the ongoing
voters’ registration.
Mr Abubakar made
this known when he led the state inter security committee to inspect
the ongoing exercise within the metropolis, warning that “you will
succeed in registering the underage children but INEC will detect
such.” He urged the registration officers not to jeopardise the effort
of the commission to have a credible voter’s register that will usher
in credible elections in the April general elections.
The poilce boss called on politicians to desist from any form of
violence , he revealed that plain security officers had been deployed
in different parts of the state to gather intelligent report to enhance
security in the state. The Inter Security Committee members are the
State Commissioner of Police, State Director of SSS, Comptrollers of
Customs, Immigration, Prison, Commanders of NDLEA and NSCDC.
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