The National Chairman of Nigeria’s indepen-dent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday confirmed the arrest of two INEC Ad hoc staff for carrying out a house-to-house registration of voters in Kano State.
Weekend Vanguard gathered that the arrest was carried out with the involvement of eagle-eyed operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS, and the Police in Kano, Kano State.
The
Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, for Kano State also confirmed the arrest
yesterday.
The
arrest was said to have been effected at a Polling Unit, PU, in the Kabo area
of Kano.
The
two arrested individuals have, however, been granted bail.
In
fact, Weekend Vanguard gathered from a very competent source that when the
Director General of the DSS, Ekpeyong Ita, got wind of the development, he was
said to have alerted Jega.
The
INEC. Chairman, in his response, confirmed the arrest.
He
was also said to have assured that the replacement for the two staff involved
was already on. He confirmed that the arrested persons were not of the National
Youth Service Corp. Shockingly, the INEC Chairman disclosed that the
individuals were students who were being used to complement the manpower
shortage of corp members.
He
insisted that the offenders would be prosecuted. Observers are however, of the
view that INEC needn’t launch into its now moribund voyage of adding 30000
Polling Units which were controversially allocated, giving the North massive
advantage over the South, when it was aware that it had a manpower challenge.
And
whereas INEC suspended the allocation of the controversial additional PUs last
Tuesday, inside sources disclosed to Weekend Vanguard that some Commissioners
in the electoral body were still bent on carrying out an agenda that would
accord the North massive voting advantage read details of this new plot in Sunday Vanguard
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