Abdulhamid Buba during the 2011 general elections issued security tags to top government officials like State Commissioners, Special Advisers, etc. to disguise as security agents or observers in order to move freely during the elections thereby contravening the restriction orders. (vii) Closely related, is the connivance between politicians and security agents to disrupt polls in areas/polling stations where they have weak support. This is usually done by creating violence in order to get the election results in such areas cancelled or out rightly create security situations that will make conduct of elections in such areas impossible. A classic example was in Jos North Local Government Area during the House of Representative election in 2011. (viii) Security hurdles/difficulties created by security agents to scare election observers/monitors from certain areas. Security agents, in the bid to cover electoral fraud discouraged observers and monitors from visiting certain areas under the guise of insecurity or violence, thereby providing opportunities for the perpetration of electoral malpractices. (ix) The last, but by no means the least, is poor logistics arrangement for the security agents(inadequate transportation and communication facilities during election activities). Most times, security men find it difficult to reach their respective polling 126 ELECTION SECURITY IN NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING New Security challenges of Election Management in Nigeria: Towards 2015 stations/collation centres due to inadequate vehicles to convey them. This is a serious security challenge that must be confronted head-on. 9.3 Recommendations: (i) Improvement of security institutional frame work. The EMB should work out a clear mandate for each category of the security agencies. (ii) Relevant legal framework to clarify the terms and conditions of cooperation between the EMB and security agencies. The legal framework should encompass chain of commands of security agencies involved in the electoral process viz-a-viz the role of the EMB in enforcing discipline and compliance with instructions on the security agencies involved during deployment for electoral duties. (iii) Task Force on conduct of security agents during elections. Supervision of the involvement of security agencies in the electoral process is necessary and important, because they could be potential source of intimidation, undue influence or compromise to skew outcomes of elections. The task force could as well determine tasks to be carried out and intervention methods. The Police Service Commission does this surveillance but on a limited scale and success. A more effective outfit made up of all the security agencies is likely to do better. It may not be out of place to point ELECTION SECURITY IN NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING 127