Osun Guber: Stay away from polling units – GOC charges troops on professional conduct

The General Officer Commanding, 2 Division, Nigerian Army, Major General Auwalu Mahmuda, has charged troops deployed to enactment information operations during the Osun State off-cycle governorship predetermination to stay nonrecreational and strictly adhere to the Code of Conduct for Election Duty.

General Mahmuda according to a connection issued by the acting Deputy Director, 2 Division Army Public Relations, Lt. Col. Danjuma Jonah Danjuma, gave the directive portion addressing troops preparing to enactment the Nigeria Police Force during the predetermination astatine the Engineer Construction Command successful Ede, Osun State on Friday.

The GOC said the troops had a captious work arsenic portion of the Nigerian Army’s law mandate to supply assistance to civilian authorities.

He said the subject operation, code-named “Operation SAFE CONDUCT, is designed to enactment the Nigeria Police Force, which remains the pb bureau liable for predetermination information and the behaviour of elections successful Nigeria.”

According to Mahmuda, the troops are expected to supply outer-cordon information and respond to information situations lone erstwhile called upon to bash so.

He directed the soldiers to enactment distant from polling units, portion responding appropriately to information threats that could undermine the peaceful behaviour of the election.

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