'Lai Olurode and MK Hammanga disregard their instructions on security issues with impunity. The present operational control of the police may work against best practices in election security. It is perfectly possible for the President and the Governors to have conflicting political interests for which they may be tempted to mobilize security forces. This indeed had happened in several of the impeachment cases in the last administration when police's conduct was evidently unconstitutional, unprofessional and patently partisan 9 . Indeed, the agitation for State police by some governors is in response to their perception and real lack of operational control over the police in their states which runs contrary to policing arrangement in a federation 10 . An outstanding challenge remains that of the citizenship rights of security personnel deployed for election purposes. Presently, there is no constitutional provision for them to exercise their franchise. Indeed, the fact that they are to ensure election security should not simply deprive them of their citizenship rights to vote during elections. Nigeria's election managers need to borrow from the experiences of other countries. The size of the security personnel that is involved in election justifies this concern. The total number would be in the range of 360,000 to 400,000. The other challenges of organizing successful elections are immense in Nigeria. Among these are the not yet perfect state of the register of voters and thus, the continued use of addendum registers, missing names of registered voters, poor turnout of voters, poor logistics resulting in late 76 ELECTION SECURITY IN NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING Deployment of Security Personnel in Elections: Challenges and Lessons from the Field commencement of elections and late arrival of election officials and election security among other sundry challenges. At this point, we need to highlight our key findings in this research. 5.5 Key Findings Research findings must speak to research objectives. Among the findings thrown up by this research are: (i) The challenges of deployment. Deployment is not a neutral phenomenon. Human beings rarely leave things to chance. Some outcomes are perceived as more favourable than others and so, these better chances are lobbied for and resources are thus mobililized to secure their outcome. Deployments have rewards attached to them and so superior rewards are canvassed. (ii) Remuneration of security personnel involved in election security is an issue that presents controversies and throws up matters of lack of motivation and dissatisfaction. Field security personnel complained of being swindled by their superiors. A majority of them preferred direct payments into their accounts by the EMB. (iii) Objective factors do not play decisive role in the practice of deployment though on paper such factors ELECTION SECURITY IN NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING 77