A combined security team set up to
monitor the Edo governorship election has arrested six persons for
disobeying restriction of movement order.
The Edo Comptroller of Prisons and
member of the team, Mr Amadin Osayande, said in Benin that the suspects
were arrested at Welfare junction, Upper Sakponba road, Ikpoba-Okha
Local Government Area, on Wednesday.
Osayande said that four men and two women were arrested inside a commercial bus during the election.
He added that the suspects said they
were aware of the restriction of movement order, yet they went about
their normal businesses.
Osayande added that there was restriction of movement and yet they were driving around the city.
He said, “Actually, we all know that
there is always restriction of movement during election, yet the
suspects were parading the city.
“Apart from the restriction order, the suspects looked suspicious and needed to be investigated.”
Other members of the combined security
team are; the state Commissioner of Police, Commander, 4 brigade of the
Nigerian Army, state Comptroller of Prisons, representatives of the
Department of State Services, the Nigeria Immigration Service and the
Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps.
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