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Anambra Governorship Elections: NSCDC Deploy It’s 20,000 Special Forces Personnel To Anambra State

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The Nigeria Safety and Civ­il Defence Corps (NSCDC) shall be deploying no fewer than 20,000 of its particular forces to Anambra State forward of the November 6 gubernatorial election within the state.

These to be deployed in­clude personnel of the NSC­DC Arms Squad Unit, Depend­er-Terrorism Unit, and the Chemical, Organic, Radio­logical and Explosives Unit.

The particular forces to be drafted to key factors within the state shall be saddled with the accountability of defending lives and property, delicate and non-sensitive election supplies, INEC officers and all important property towards van­dalism, injury or arsonist at­tacks, says the Commandant Common of the Corps, Ahmed Abubakar Audi.

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Audi, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja, whereas de­livering his keynote deal with at a ‘Three-Day Prepare-the- Trainers Capability Constructing and Electoral Workshop’, forward of the Anambra guber ballot.

He stated the NSCDC in col­laboration with different safety businesses have developed strat­egies to checkmate any act of electoral violence and different nefarious actions able to undermining the electoral course of.

To make sure efficient moni­toring earlier than, throughout and after the election, Audi added that the NSCDC shall be deploying 20,000 officers and males for the conduct of the election.

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In accordance with the NSCDC boss, the personnel to be de­ployed for the task shall be drafted from all of the South-South and South-East State Instructions to affix their counterparts in Anambra State.

“As well as, personnel from Kogi, Ekiti, Ondo, and Benue have been positioned on standby in case there’s want for reinforcement,” he stated.