The Ogun State Police Command in collaboration with Development Communication Research Centre on Tuesday kick started a 2-Day workshop on election security ahead of the 2027 general elections which also involved participation of legal practitioners, police personnel ,media and other stakeholders in the state.
Penpushing reports that the objectives of the workshop which is to end on Wednesday, are to equip elections stakeholders with contemporary security knowledge vital to the successful conduct of elections, to forget seamless integrated working relationship among all security personal during the conduct of the 2027 elections in Ogun State and to educate professional and citizens journalists on the praxis of community journalism as a component of community policing.
The others include to educate journalists on their roles in managing violence, terrorism and related crimes during elections, to revitalize and reinvigorate police community relations committees at local, zonal and state levels in Ogun State and to align all stakeholders on the 2027 elections on one goal: peaceful, credible elections where security protects rights and media informs without incurring violence
Penpushing further reports that the workshop manager, Prof Bolu John Folayan in his speech explained that the essence of the workshop is the challenges of technology, political awareness among the masses, enormity of election logistics, huge cost and professionalism make the task of conducting election very enormous
‘In plain and simple terms today, we are here to align on one goal; peaceful, credible elections where security protects rights, and media informs without inciting violence. But we have a broader and father view: To institute and endure tradition of making Ogun State the safest state to conduct free and fair elections in Nigeria in the short-run”, Folayan emphasized
Penpushing also reports that he explained that through the training the organizers have designed inter-agency coordination, real and hypothetical case studies for participants to be able to build shared understanding of the law to prevent conflicts, arrest violence, protect rights and ensure successful elections, all other things in place
“We are here to forge the exact ways to work together to have peaceful and successful elections as far as it concerns security. All participants are already being deployed into syndicate groups as they arrive. The syndicate groups will review the address of the keynote speaker, lead paper handle hypothetical and real situations within the themes of the workshop and report back to the workshop”, Folayan added
Meanwhile, the day one of the workshop was declared open by Ogun State Governor Prince Dapo Abiodun, while the lead paper titled “Elections Security, The Law, Stakeholders and The Media”, was delivered by Prof Fassy Yusuf, a former Commissioner of Information in Ogun State
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