Nigeria Police Force @PoliceNG

2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS: USE OF DOGS, OTHER PETS AT POLLING UNITS CRIMINAL, CONDEMNABLE - NPF

The Nigeria Police Force has deemed it necessary to educate and caution Nigerians on the use of pets, especially, dogs, at the polling units on election day, as such act runs contrary to the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022, as amended.

The provision of Section 126 (1) of the Electoral Act. 2022, explains clearly those actions exhibited by electorates that constitute electoral breaches and are punishable under the law, and paragraph (f) mentions possession of weapons calculated to intimidate voters and electoral officers. Dogs could be classed as offensive weapons as their owners/handlers can use them to intimidate, harass and cause assault and bodily harm to others.

The Dogs Act, CAP 55 Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1958 as domesticated in various States, and other Criminal Laws in Nigeria are trite.

The conceived ideas and plans by certain individuals, electorates, and groups of people to go to the polls accompanied by pets are unacceptable, stand discouraged, and remain an act of electoral infraction as it will cause harassment and intimidation.

The Nigeria Police Force, therefore, warns those who intend to display their pets, dogs specifically, for whatever purpose, at the polling units, to desist as such constitutes a violation of the electoral Act, 2022, as amended, and other extant laws.

CSP OLUMUYIWA ADEJOBI, mnipr, mipra,
FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER,
FORCE HEADQUARTERS,
ABUJA.

7th March, 2023

https://twitter.com/PoliceNG/status/1633116402688184321

If the likes of mc olomo and other miscreants boldly terrorising citizens in the name of election, are walking free, then people should be allowed to carry whatever means of protecting themselves.

I am certain that in the new Nigeria OBIDENT government, every rascal will account for his doings.

PODATTI is taking back his mandate.

Summary of my many previous posts.

1) Human rights lawyers, civil society groups, journalists, etc complained that our elections were being militarised. They said that the government deployed armed policemen to polling units in order to intimidate voters and that the government should stop deploying armed men to polling units.

2) The National Assembly passed a law to ban anyone from having offensive weapons withing 300 metres of a polling unit.

3) The police obeyed and created a new security system in which there will be unarmed policemen at the polling unit and armed policemen (usually in patrol vans) some distance from the polling unit.

4) The police obey the law, but do thugs obey the law? What can an unarmed policeman do against an armed thug that attacks a polling unit?

5) The people (who were the ones that complained about armed policemen being at the polling units) complain that policemen do nothing when armed thugs attack polling units. What do you want an unarmed policeman to do??

That (above) is the Nigerian pendulum.

naptu2:
Electoral Act 2022

1 & 2) You can see that, by law, the police are to be given a copy of the results. The Inspector General of Police was at the collation centre yesterday. I wonder if he plans to personally collect the result. He has usually been represented in the past.

3) Aha! I have found the distance. Nobody is allowed to have an offensive weapon within 300 metres of the polling unit. What the police have done, in order to comply with the law, is to have unarmed policemen at the polling unit and then have a patrol vehicle with armed policemen just beyond 300 metres from the polling unit.

4) For those that were asking on Twitter yesterday why the policemen at the polling unit did not have batons, teargas, etc. here's your answer. You can see the definition of offensive weapon in the 4th screenshot below.

Remember, the restriction on offensive weapons came about because citizens, human rights lawyers, NGOs, etc accused the government/politicians of deploying armed policemen to polling centres to intimidate voters. Some even said that the idea of having armed officers at the polling unit came from military rule. So it is not the police's fault.

https://placng.org/i/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Electoral-Act-2022.pdf

POLICE FOLD ARMS as political tugs attacks VOTERS,what do you expect the citizens to do to protect themselves

This has been on my mind for decades. I wrote the post in 2019. This particular thread reminds me of number 4.

naptu2:


Nigerians keep bouncing back and forth


1) Government limits the number of political parties to two, or, much later, government prescribes stringent conditions that political associations must adhere to before they can be registered as political parties (you must have an office in every state capital, etc.)


Nigerians: This is undemocratic and unconstitutional. You cannot limit the number of political parties. The constitution guarantees freedom of association. Government is trying to prevent people that it doesn't like from creating political parties.

Gani took INEC to court and won.

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So INEC registers all the political associations as political parties. We have 90 political parties and 70 presidential candidates. There are 200 more associations waiting to be registered as political parties.


Nigerians: This is a joke! How can we have so many presidential candidates? What is INEC doing? They need to deregister some of these mushroom parties! It is a deliberate ploy by the government to divide votes!

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2)

Nigerians: We cannot have politicians going to the polling booths with their police and military escorts. They will intimidate voters and election officials. Their security escorts will compromise the security officials on election duty.


Inspector general of police and chief of defence staff: No uniformed security official should follow any politician to the polling unit. We shall withdraw most of the police and military guards of politicians 24 hours before the election, to ensure that politicians cannot use them to affect the conduct of the election.


Nigerians: The government has withdrawn the security guards of governor ***** because they want to attack him during the election. Hold the federal government responsible if anything happens to governor *****. How can you withdraw a whole governor's security. That tells you that they want to rig the election.

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3)

Nigerians: We need to do away with moneybag politicians. Moneybag politicians destroyed our democracy in the first and second republics. They become godfathers, determine what happens in the party and the people will have no say.


Babangida: Government will provide subventions to political parties to ensure that they are not dependent on any moneybag politicians.


Nigerians: If government provides subventions to the parties, then that means that the parties are no longer independent organisations. It means that they are now arms (slaves) of the government and dependent on government and will do whatever government wants.


Nigerians: Some people go into politics solely to get government subventions and not to serve the people.

INEC: We will limit government subventions to political parties that have won at least one election.


Nigerians: That means you are supporting strong parties against weak parties.

Also Nigerians: You are wasting tax payers' money. These politicians only create political parties in order to steal government subventions.

INEC: We will stop giving subventions.

Nigerians: Parties that control federal/state governments have an advantage because they have access to government funds. Why doesn't the government help smaller parties?

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4)

Nigerians Why are our elections so militarised. There are armed policemen at every polling unit. This could scare voters away. You don't have armed policemen at polling units in the US and UK.


The electoral act is amended to ban armed security agents from being within a certain distance from polling units.

Heavily armed thugs attack polling units and the policemen at the polling units can't do anything because they are unarmed.

Nigerians: The politicians did this deliberately. They posted unarmed officers to the polling units so that their thugs can easily disrupt the process.

Police are crminals

There was a country.
When will Nigeria be great again?

Was this nation once great?

kilode bayi oooo

One of the most Useless Force in de World kept disgracing themselves..
I tink de are planning something

Sanwo lekansi

naptu2:
Nigeria Police Force @PoliceNG



https://twitter.com/PoliceNG/status/1633116402688184321

What about Tinubu’s attack dogs ?

But protect yourself from Tinubu thugs

Noted.

Alright


Check my Signature

Just tie your dogs at each junctions and some 100m near the polling units.

Make sure to unleash them if any tout come around

NPF can not be trusted



Enough of The Nonsense.

Make NPF dey play.
Thuggery in polling unit is allow.
Make person try nonsense for my pu

ENKR E NI KURE

accordadoga:
CHILDREN OF HATE WILL SAY TINUBU DON BRIBE NPF AND INEC AGAIN


HAUSAS NO LIKE DEM
YORUBAS NO LIKE DEM
EVEN SOUTH/SOUTH PEOPLE DEY AVOID DEM LIKE PLAGUE
SOUTH AFRICANS NO LIKE DEM
ASIANS NO LIKE DEM…

THE WHOLE WORLD IS TIRED OF THEM


4TH CLASS CITIZENS AFTER COW

You keep posting this every where you go. For that I curse you. You will.plant and another will.eat it. You will never real.your labour but others will finish it in front of your eyes.

naptu2:
Summary of my many previous posts.

1) Human rights lawyers, civil society groups, journalists, etc complained that our elections were being militarised. They said that the government deployed armed policemen to polling units in order to intimidate voters and that the government should stop deploying armed men to polling units.

2) The National Assembly passed a law to ban anyone from having offensive weapons withing 300 metres of a polling unit.

3) The police obeyed and created a new security system in which there will be unarmed policemen at the polling unit and armed policemen (usually in patrol vans) some distance from the polling unit.

4) The police obey the law, but do thugs obey the law? What can an unarmed policeman do against an armed thug that attacks a polling unit?

5) The people (who were the ones that complained about armed policemen being at the polling units) complain that policemen do nothing when armed thugs attack polling units. What do you want an unarmed policeman to do??

That (above) is the Nigerian pendulum.

why would dey be passing such stupid laws?

Na WA!

Na to chase touts

Thunder fire you, when Hundeyin was saying with his full chest on Arise TV that the policeman at one of the trouble spots in Surulere was just there to stand by and observe. Observation that has led to no arrest or prosecution almost a fortnight later.

I am coming with my baseball bat and if urchins try anything stupid, I will initiate an upgrade. We can all be mad in Lagos na!

But thugs are not illegal.🙄

accordadoga:
CHILDREN OF HATE WILL SAY TINUBU DON BRIBE NPF AND INEC AGAIN


HAUSAS NO LIKE DEM
YORUBAS NO LIKE DEM
EVEN SOUTH/SOUTH PEOPLE DEY AVOID DEM LIKE PLAGUE
SOUTH AFRICANS NO LIKE DEM
ASIANS NO LIKE DEM…

THE WHOLE WORLD IS TIRED OF THEM


4TH CLASS CITIZENS AFTER COW

No difference between thugs and dogs naw shebi you have thugs then let them be free to unleash their dogs on your disruptive and deadly thugs

Even police will be bitten by bingo
Shey dem no want get sense.
Snatching ballot boxes with hoodlums