2027: Police threaten crackdown on politicians destroying opponents’ billboards, posters

The Nigeria Police Force has threatened to apprehension and prosecute persons caught destroying run billboards and posters belonging to governmental opponents up of the 2027 polls.

The constabulary said the informing became indispensable pursuing reports of tearing and defacing of run materials belonging to candidates and governmental parties successful antithetic parts of the country.

According to the Force, specified actions magnitude to governmental intolerance and indispensable stop.

Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Ani Iniedu, who disclosed this successful a connection issued connected Wednesday, said the enactment is punishable nether the law.

He explained that wilful demolition of run materials falls nether malicious harm and mischief arsenic provided successful Section 451 of the Criminal Code Act and Section 326 of the Penal Code.

Iniedu noted that supporting a governmental enactment does not confer the close to tamper with the run assets of different campaigner oregon interfere with t...