Mike Igini Institutions and Human Rights. July 2009. Copenhagen. 11. The Economist, 2012. 12. The Huffington Post,(2012).France elections: Hollande beats Sarkozy to become French President.AP/Huffington Post. 05 June, 2012. Washington. 62 ELECTION SECURITY IN NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING Chapter Five DEPLOYMENT OF SECURITY PERSONNEL IN ELECTIONS: CHALLENGES AND LESSONS FROM THE FIELD 'Lai Olurode and MK Hammanga 5.1 Introduction It is important to remind ourselves of the prevailing global security threats within which deployment for election security has to take place. The competing demand for deployment cannot be ignored, particularly, deployment for internal security challenges arising from incessant bombings, kidnapping and abduction as well as armed robberies. As important as elections are to a country's rating in the comity of nations, election security in the face of other more dastardly acts of terrorism may not be a major priority. This has to be so because, security resources and personnel are not unlimited and priority has to be right. However, both external and internal deployments of security personnel have become critical issues in today's world of complex security architecture. Both internal and external deployments are not to be conflated but one has implications for the other. They are organically linked. Availability of security personnel is to be distinguished from deployment, the latter being an operational issue. As a concept, deployment is from the word deploy which is to bring ELECTION SECURITY IN NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING 63