Ongoing investigation into alleged proliferation of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) in the country is apparently paying off as the Independent National
Making real the vow by the electoral body to track the culprits and bring them to book, a magistrate court sitting in Sokoto has sentenced one Nasiru Idris who was found to be in possession of 101 PVCs to a year of imprisonment.
“The man who was found to be in possession of 367 PVCs had been charged to court and the commission is pursuing his prosecution, assured of the commission’s commitment to continue to pursue all violators of the Electoral Act and ensure their diligent prosecution.” Barely three weeks after the over 10,000 PVCs were found in a drainage in Rivers State, another 300 stashed in a bag were discovered by hunters inside an uncompleted building along the AIT/Elebele road in Yenogoa, Bayelsa State.
“At the end of the retreat, the Commission will release the dates as well as the detailed procedure for the immediate collection of PVCs nationwide. Speaking with our correspondent last night, the lawmaker who represents Gwer East/Gwer West federal constituency of Benue State in the Green Chamber, noted that if INEC does not have explanation for the anomaly, the commission should prompt relevant security agencies to commence an immediate investigation to unravel the mystery.
“INEC should begin to enlighten eligible voters not to allow anyone collect their voter cards to the serial number of their cards,” he added. A senior CDD programme officer, Austin Aigbe, while speaking with LEADERSHIP yesterday in Abuja, said with BVAS it will be very difficult for anybody to use such cards except it their own.
“I also think they feel we are still in 2019 where if you fail electronic accreditation you will use the incident form to vote and in certain areas, you will see people voting en masse it won’t work this time,” he added.
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