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Appendix I f. Budgets of all security agencies should be sent early for appropriation, before any general and other elections. g. The Federal Ministry of Works should be advised to allocate more federal mass transit vehicles to the NURTW to enable them contribute sufficiently to election logistic arrangements. h. State and local governments should invest more in constructing befitting motor parks in towns and cities so as to reduce their attraction as hideouts for criminals. i. INEC should partner with NURTW, okada riders association and other non-state actors with a view to extending the frontiers of voter education to these categories of Nigerians. 114 Appendix II Book Review Title: Election Security in Nigeria: Matters Arising Publishers: Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung(FES), Abuja, Nigeria, 2013, 152 pages. Reviewer: S.S. Muhammad, PhD Department of Political Science, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria. REVIEW of the Book Election Security in Nigeria: Matters Arising As the 2015 general elections approach, it is important to raise pertinent questions about security in general and election security in particular. Security challenges have become pronounced in the country as a whole especially in the context of Boko Haram insurgency, just as thestruggle to gain access to power[by the political class] and thus to state resources have not only remained protracted but fierce as well(page xxv). This, understandably, has given rise to a concern of how to secure elections and deepen the democratic process in Nigeria. It was with this in mind that a workshop on'Security Challenges of Election Management: Matters Arising from 2011 and Anticipating 2015' was held at Abuja in August, 2012. The bookElection Security in Nigeria: Matters Arising is the outcome of that workshop. Experts, security 115