Ahmed Issack Hassan l Reform of the electoral process and the management of elections in order to institutionalize free and fair elections; l Establishment of an efficient and effective secretariat; l Promotion of free and fair elections; l Fresh registration of voters and the creation of a new voters' register; l Development of a modern system for collection, collation, transmission, and tallying of electoral data; l Conducting of the referendum for the new constitution; l Facilitation of the observation, monitoring and evaluation of elections and referenda; l Promotion of voter education and culture of democracy, and l Settlement of minor electoral disputes during an election as may be provided by law. This is a heavy mandate for any electoral management body, and more so an interim one. The Commission however took on an unaccustomed burden and responsibility to prepare the country for fresh registration of voters in the midst of unplanned by-elections, and the national referendum on the new Constitution. The Commission within short sixteen months since its inception had taken bold and unprecedented steps to re-establish and reform electoral processes and management practices whose results are manifested by the successful referendum, eight Parliamentary and several Civic elections. While there are many challenges that IIEC had to cope with, one of the major 104 ELECTION SECURITY IN NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING Security Challenges in Election Management: Towards Nigeria's 2011 Elections, “Case Study of security challenges in Kenyan Elections” challenges was that of ensuring that political campaigns, elections logistics and voting processes were characterized by high level of security without which no free and fair elections could take place. Security is a constant variable throughout the electoral cycle. It must feature as part and parcel of all the electoral processes, from registration of voters, voter education, during campaign periods, the actual polling day and of course during the counting, tallying and declaration of the final results. Experience has shown us that, if any of these processes is not properly handled or any dispute arising is not well managed, security becomes even more imminent to contain disgruntled parties and their supporters. 1. Considering that there was no Voters Register in existence once the former ECK was disbanded. 2. The referendum on the new Constitution was held on 4th August, 2010 and the new Constitution promulgated on 27th August, 2010. 7.2 Security Challenges in Elections Management in Kenya Security in any process allows a situation where members of the general publican freely and fully exercise their democratic rights to elect a person of their choice. Among many factors that influence this, security is the bedrock that ensures free and fair elections and provides a shield behind which democracy flourish and prevails. Security in the electoral processes encompasses many things including the following ­ELECTION SECURITY IN NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING 105