The police have deployed armed undercover security personnel in all the Eid-El-Kabir prayer grounds across the nation in order to frustrate plans of the terrorists attack on Muslim worshipers today Monday. The undercover operatives would work alongside other regular personnel at the prayer grounds to ensure adequate and maximum security. According to PUNCH news, the police together with the Department of State Services had on Wednesday warned that the terrorists had planned to attack about 11 states in the country between Monday and Tuesday. And it was in view of this planned attack, that the Edo State governorship election which was to take place last Saturday was suspended.
Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector General of Police, had instructed the command's commissioners of police and the Zonal Assistant Inspectors- General of police to provide adequate security personnel in all the prayer grounds, recreation centres, public places, public infrastructure and utilities and other points and venues where the Eid-El-Kabir celebration would hold across the country for maximum security.
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