Osun State Police Command yesterday said the command would not allow members of Oodua Peoples’ Congress (OPC) and other vigilance groups from monitoring today’s election.

Disclosing this in a statement issued in Osogbo on Friday, State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abubakar Marafa, also warned rumour mongers and anyone plotting to perpetrate violence during and after the election to desist from carrying out the plan, adding that anyone caught would be dealt with.

He told people of the state to troop out en-mass to exercise their civic duties without any fear, with the assurance that the command has deployed officers and men to all the polling units and collation centres across the 30 Local Government Areas and Modakeke Area Office.

He added that men of the command have also been deployed to strategic locations to ensure hitch free elections in the state.

Marafa also advised parents and guardians to warn their wards against being used to cause crisis during the poll.

According to him, officers and men of the command have been properly trained and sensitized on their roles as stipulated by the electoral Act, stressing that adequate security and logistics have been put in place across the state.

Marafa said: “We will not hesitate to deal decisively and within the ambit of law, with anyone, group of persons who attempted to foment trouble and in the process disrupt the smooth conduct of the elections.”

•Adapted from Saturday Mirror. Photo shows Osun CP, Abubakar Marafa.