Armed men who aided the snatching of ballot boxes in Lokoja and its environs during Saturday’s governorship election were “fake policemen,” an official has said.His view was shared by the spokesperson of the police headquarters, Frank Mba, in an interview on Channels television.
But the police failed woefully as the ballot boxes at many of the polling units in Ward A in Lokoja, in Kotan Karfi and other parts of the state were carted away by gun-toting armed men in police uniform in full glare of security operatives manning the polling units. “When we get the information and by the time we get there the hoodlums had fled,” Mr Busari said on Saturday while defending his men and explaining why none of the stolen boxes were recovered.
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