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By Albert Akpor<\/strong><\/p>\n

LAGOS \u2013 WITH the April general elections around the corner, the police high command, weekend, in Lagos assured that its men would not be allowed to use lethal weapons at the various polling stations across the country.<\/p>\n

It said the move was to guide against what it described as \u2018accidental discharge\u2019 and ensure a casualty-free elections.\u00a0 The Assistant Inspector-General of Police\u00a0 in-charge of Zone II command, Onikan Lagos Alhaji Suleiman Fakai told Vanguard that the police was poised to breaking a record by ensuring a violence-free elections adding that part of the measures was the avoid the use of fire arms at polling boots.<\/p>\n

The police chief who want politicians and stakeholders to see the forthcoming general elections as a \u2018national exercise\u2019 maintained that if everybody, including politicians and their supporters would comport themselves and abide by rules of the game, there would not be need for policemen to carry arms and ammunition around polling stations and election areas.<\/p>\n

According to him, \u201cfor the purpose of emphasis, this is not the first time we are conducting elections in this country and I can assure you that the police is ever ready to ensure a violence free elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

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