By Kingsley Omonobi, Abuja
Ahead of the 2011 elections and fears that the members of the Nigeria Police who will be primarily vested with the responsibility of safeguarding INEC voting materials and polling booths may be compromised, chairman of the Police Service Commission, DIG Parry Osayande (rtd) has warned such police collaborators to be prepared to go to jail.

“Government is very serious about ensuring free and fair elections where every vote will count and you can see that efforts are being put in place for this. We have the capacity to police all the polling centers in the country. Any policeman who tries to do what he was not sent to do and help the politicians perpetrate illegality, its straight to jail. No two ways about it”, he stated.

“For the 2011 elections, it is very simple, rig elections and go to jail. Let me use this opportunity to call on people across the country to come out en_mass to ensure that nobody succeeds in rigging. It is not only police problem. All the people involve must come out and defend their votes at the polling stations”.

He recalled what happened in Ekiti during the last re_run election when somebody who snatched ballot box was chased, apprehended and almost roasted alive, saying if people safeguarded their votes in such manner, riggers would think twice.