{"id":4794,"date":"2011-12-02T20:58:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T20:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/nigeria-state-to-deploy-20000-for-election\/"},"modified":"2011-12-02T20:58:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T20:58:56","slug":"nigeria-state-to-deploy-20000-for-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/02\/nigeria-state-to-deploy-20000-for-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: State to Deploy 20,000 for Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytrust.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/dailytrust180.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Trust (Abuja)\" title=\"Visit Daily Trust (Abuja)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Isiaka Wakili<\/p>\n<p>2 December 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Lokoja \u2014 About 20, 000 policemen have been deployed for today&#8217;s governorship election in Kogi State.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman of the State Police Command, Mr Okasanmi Ajayi, who spoke to Weekly Trust on phone yesterday, merely said there would be a massive deployment of police officers and officers of other security agencies for the election.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, over 6,000 officers of the command would be at various locations within the state throughout the election period.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that men and officers of police commands from neighbouring states had arrived the state for the election.<\/p>\n<p>He said security arrangements had been perfected to ensure a hitch-free conduct of the election.<\/p>\n<p>Our correspondent reports that hundreds of policemen were on parade yesterday in Lokoja, the state capital.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, INEC Chairman Prof. Attairu Jega said at stakeholders&#8217; meeting in Lokoja on Thursday that at least two policemen would be at each of the 2,548 polling units in the state.<\/p>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Isiaka Wakili 2 December 2011 Lokoja \u2014 About 20, 000 policemen have been deployed for today&#8217;s governorship election in Kogi State. The spokesman of the State Police Command, Mr Okasanmi Ajayi, who spoke to Weekly Trust on phone yesterday, merely said there would be a massive deployment of police officers and officers of other security agencies for the election. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: State to Deploy 20,000 for Election - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/02\/nigeria-state-to-deploy-20000-for-election\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: State to Deploy 20,000 for Election - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Isiaka Wakili 2 December 2011 Lokoja \u2014 About 20, 000 policemen have been deployed for today&#039;s governorship election in Kogi State. 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