2015: Navy, Airforce To Monitor Elections

Jalingo – The Independent National Electoral Commission said it would

engage the services of Nigerian Air Force, Navy and other security
agencies for adequate security during general elections in 2015.

Mr Austin Okojie, the commission’s Resident Electoral Commissioner in
Taraba, disclosed this while addressing Batch B corps members at NYSC
Orientation Camp in Jalingo on Sunday.

Okojie explained that the move was necessary given the level of insecurity
in the country.

“The commission is making arrangements with the Nigerian Air Force, Navy
and other security agents to ensure safety of lives and property during
the 2015 general elections.

“We expect Nigerians to understand that the engagement of security agents
to maintain law and order is to enable us to conduct free, fair and
acceptable elections’’, he said.

Okojie advised corp members to be patriotic in the elections.

Mr Freeman Tumba, the State Coordinator of NYSC, commended the role of
corpse members in the country’s electoral process so far.

He said corpse members were the best set of Nigerians to bring credibility
to the nation’s electoral process.(NAN)