Mohammed Munirat Nasir, Gusau.
Zamfara State Police Commissioner, Mr Celestine Okoye, has dispelled insinuations that the command had arrested a vehicle conveying Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) sensitive election materials in the state.
Okoye made the clarification in a joint press briefing with INEC, at the police command headquarters in Gusau. The commissioner said the officers of the command, during a stop and search duty, stopped a J5 bus and discovered that the items in the bus had INEC logo on them. He said he ordered that vehicle be brought to the command for further investigations, to ensure that the materials were not meant to be used for negative purposes.
“This morning, our men on stop and search duty stopped a vehicle and saw INEC materials, and they called my attention, and I ordered them to bring the vehicle, the driver and the conductor to the police headquarters,” he said.
While displaying some of the materials found in the vehicle, the police commissioner said to clarify the claim of the driver, the command invited INEC officials, who confirmed that the items were none sensitive materials and they were being conveyed to INEC’s zonal store in Sokoto.
“Gentlemen of the press, I called you to come because, sometimes, when it is only a man that sees a small snake before you know, it becomes a python to members of the public”, he said.