Muhammed Abubakar, Reporting
AHEAD of the general elections starting on Saturday, the Nigerian Army (NA) has rolled out a list of hotlines to monitor and report any suspicious act or acts of violence by unscrupulous persons or group of persons capable of disrupting the polls.
This is in an effort to effectively carry out its constitutional mandate of providing support to civil authorities and working in synergy with the Nigeria Police (NP) to ensure protection of lives and property during the forthcoming 2023 elections.
This was disclosed in a statement issued by Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, Director Army Public Relations on Tuesday evening.
He said the essence is to ensure a peaceful conduct of the 2023 general election, as well as the conduct of troops deployed to provide security during the election.
“This is part of NA’s move to support the lead security agency, the NP for the successful conduct of free,fair and peaceful elections.
“It could be recalled that the NA had earlier produced and circulated Codes of Conduct and Rules of Engagement for Operation Safe Conduct to formations and Units to provide guidance and ensure that troops operate within the provisions of the codes and rules.
“Members of the general public are please enjoined to call the phone numbers below in their various states including the Federal Capital Territory Abuja to report any security breach during the elections” he further noted.
Below are the hotlines per state:
1. ABIA STATE 08031113129
2. ADAMAWA STATE 08022750987
3. AKWA-IBOM STATE 07034470916
4. ANAMBRA STATE 07035891185
5. BAUCHI STATE 08128063675
6. BAYELSA STATE 08033241005
7. BENUE STATE 08080754339
8. BORNO STATE 09099616160
08086987079
9. CROSS RIVER STATE 08037084192
10. DELTA STATE 07035070797
11. EBONYI STATE 08158274048
12. EDO STATE 09066325953
13. EKITI STATE 08037851448
14. ENUGU STATE 09032102212, 08023097458
15. GOMBE STATE 07063908779, 08082557782
16. IMO STATE 07034907427
17. JIGAWA STATE 07017791414, 08100144363
18. KADUNA STATE 07031544227, 08028580978, 08035242633
19. KANO STATE 08038432656
20. KASTINA STATE 08108854061, 09012998054
21. KEBBI STATE 09130213661
22. KOGI STATE 08033217964
23. KWARA STATE 09060001270
24. LAGOS STATE 08034025825, 08023190487, 09024409000, 08033709434
25. NASSARAWA STATE 09051009404
26. NIGER STATE 07031346425
27. OGUN STATE 09116589494
28. ONDO STATE 08036130535
29. OSUN STATE 09019683922
30. OYO STATE 07047703000
31. PLATEAU STATE 08037116395, 07031260622
32. RIVERS STATE 08064274222
33. SOKOTO STATE 07069084570, 07052693532, 08136913284
34. TARABA STATE 08136728969, 08060902363
35. YOBE STATE 08061397656
36. ZAMFARA STATE 08140075541
37. FCT 09114913164, 08186690471, 08079153860, 08034276240, 08164304255, 09159793968