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Anambra State Police Commissioner, Hosea Karma yesterday said movement of persons and vehicles would be restricted from mid-night of March 28 for Presidential and National Assembly elections.
Karma made this known at a stakeholders’ meeting organized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to explain election procedures for the polls. He therefore enjoined the people of the state to comply or be prepared to face the law. He vowed to arrest politicians who would foment trouble,irrespective of their position in society.
The police boss said the security agencies in Anambra state were united to ensure peaceful, free, fair and credible elections that it would be impossible to break them.
INEC on the occasion revealed that the percentage collection of Permanent Voters Card (PVCs) in the State had reached 91 percent just as the State Governor Chief Willie Obiano represented onthe occasion by the state Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Tony Onyima thanked community leaders for heeding to his call and mobilizing their people to collect their cards.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Edwin Nwatarali who attended the forum with most INEC staff took time to explain to the stakeholders the basic essentials in the elections, including card readers and their functions and attendant credibility in elections.
He also showed the audience prototypes of the various ballot boxes to be used for the three elections slated for March 28.
On the issue of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Nwatarali explained that a window was opened for those who came down from the North to the South to transfer their voting centres to the South and warned that those who voluntarily moved from the North to the South could not be regarded as IDPs
The chairman of the forum and traditional ruler of Nnewi, Igwe Kenneth Orizu who urged politicians to see politics like a game of football which opponents could win or lose, and encouraged them to take it in good faith if they lose.
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