Bauchi by-election: Police arrest 47 suspected fake security operatives at polling units

The Bauchi Police Command has arrested 47 persons allegedly posing arsenic state-owned information operatives and carrying guns, cutlasses and sticks astatine polling units during the ongoing by-election successful Disina State Constituency, Shira Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.

The suspects were reportedly arrested arsenic voting commenced successful the Disina constituency connected Saturday.

The arrests came contempt the constabulary command’s earlier informing that state-owned information outfits, vigilante groups, backstage information guards and different quasi-security agencies were not permitted to enactment successful the predetermination information operation.

The bid had said lone information agencies recognised nether the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee connected Election Security were authorised to supply information during the by-election.

In a connection issued connected Saturday, the spokesperson of the command, SP Nafiu Habib, said the 47 suspects were arrested by constabulary unit deployed to polling units crossed Disina.

He said the suspects, who allegedly claimed to beryllium members of a state-owned information outfit, were recovered with firearms and othe...