The Commissioner, Lagos State Police Command, CP Idowu Owohunwa, has said that some weapons, ballot boxes and sensitive materials snatched by suspected thugs were recovered during the gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections in Lagos State.
The CP disclosed this on Saturday to newsmen after he rounded off his monitoring activities for the elections.
Owohunwa said some persons were also arrested over various electoral offences in different parts of the state, stressing that there were some isolated cases during the election.
He said: “We made a number of arrests.
“We also made some recoveries in terms of INEC sensitive materials, ballot boxes, offensive weapons.
“The number of arrests is still being compiled from our field officers.
“I will by Sunday morning know the exact number and make it public.
“No one was killed in Lagos State during the gubernatorial election.
Owohunwa described the exercise in Lagos State as excellent in spite of some pockets of violence.
He noted that the isolated cases were actually challenging to the security agencies, stressing, however, that those breaches were anticipated and measures were put in place to check the situation.
He said: “Our operational plans actually anticipated that there would be breaches.
“It was planned in a way that whenever it occurred, our attention was drawn to such breaches.
“We have a second layer action plan which we activated in most of the isolated instances where the breaches were reported.
“We promptly responded and restore order.”
