The Lagos State Police Command of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) says that five out of 23 persons arrested during the Presidential and National Assembly elections would be arraigned for electoral offences.
The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Superintendent of Police Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday.
He said that investigation carried out on the arrested 23 persons revealed that only five of them have cases to answer in court for allegedly disrupting the electoral process on February 25, 2023.
“Out of 23 persons arrested during Presidential and Parliamentary elections, five of them will be charged to court any moment from now for disrupting the electoral process.
“Their investigations have been concluded. The rest are just victims of circumstances,” he said.
The Commissioner of Police in Lagos, CP Idowu Owohunwa, on Monday, assured residents of the state that those arrested and culpable for electoral crimes on February 25, 2023, would be charged to court this week.
Owohunwa gave the assurance in a stakeholders’ meeting to review the security of the Presidential and Parliamentary elections.
Some of the stakeholders have demanded for the immediate prosecution of electoral offenders to serve as deterrent to others in coming elections.
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