TY  - JOUR
T1  - Security Agencies and Challenges of Election Security in Nigeria: Lessons from Ghana
AU - Nnaemeka Azom, Stephen AU - Oluchi Nwosu, Grace AU - Odigbo, Jude 
JO  - Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences
VL  - 18
IS  - 6
SP  - 106
EP  - 115
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1683-8831
DO  - pjssci.2021.106.115
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=pjssci.2021.106.115
KW  - Election
KW  -security agencies
KW  -election security
KW  -election administration
KW  -election duties
AB  - The study examined the nexus between
security agencies and challenges of election security in
Nigeria. Anchored on the Marxist theory of the state,
documentary method and qualitative content analysis, the
study ascertained that deployment and control of security
personnel, especially the police during elections is done
by the Inspector-General of Police, mostly in favour of
pre-determined interests. The study further observed that
security personnel have paradoxically become a central
element of election insecurity, on account of their
deployment and partisan roles in election administration,
the scenario which primarily derives from low
autonomization of the Nigerian State. Drawing from
Ghana’s experience in election administration, the study
posits that all security personnel on election duty are to
come under the control and command of the head of
electoral commission rather than the Inspector-General of
Police or even the President who, at that point, is an
interested party. Among others, the study recommends the
amendment of the Electoral Act and other legal
documents to ensure that the head of electoral
commission in Nigeria assumes the control and command
of security personnel on the day of election.
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