INEC RECEIVES NEW FIRE ENGINE TO THE COMMISSION. ….As FFS directs State Fire Services to step up protective measures
Oru Leonard
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has taken delivery of a new fire engine from the Federal Fire Service (FFS), today Monday, June 7, 2021.
During his remarks the Chairman of the Commission, Professor Manmood Yakub who commended all the security agencies noted that the Federal Fire Service has been as concerned as other security agencies about the recent attacks on our offices across the country. ” This is particularly so because out of the 42 attacks on our facilities nationwide, 18 incidents resulted from arson and three more by a combination of arson and vandalization”, he said
The Federal Fire Service offered to deploy additional state-of-the-art fire engine to the INEC headquarters to complement the two existing trucks. At the same time, it directed its State offices to take additional protective measures around other INEC facilities nationwide.
“Today’s inauguration of the new fire engine is another affirmation of the support to the Commission from the Federal Fire Service whose personnel, already deployed permanently to the Commission, will continue to operate and maintain the fire engines and other fire fighting equipment installed by INEC.
“This demonstration of support from the security agencies is coming on the eve of the resumption of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) nationwide in the next three weeks. We earlier assured Nigerians that we shall conclude work on the expansion of voter access to polling units and make the new polling units available to citizens ahead of the CVR exercise.
