Extortion: INEC withdraws two officials from Benue LG office

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has withdrawn two of its officials who were exposed for demanding payment for voter registration.

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The commission announced its decision in a statement on Friday signed by Shehu Abdulwahab, INEC’s administrative secretary in Benue. 

An investigation by TheCable, published on June 16, had revealed that INEC officials in Oju LGA of Benue were asking for N300 as payment for voter registration. 

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INEC described the development as “ugly”, saying it is “deeply concerned” because it made provisions to ensure a smooth conduct of the voter registration process.

“The attention of the Commission has been drawn to reports that two of our staff in Oju LGA were alleged to have demanded payment of a fee before registering citizens as voters in the local government,” the statement reads. 

“The Commission is deeply concerned over this development as provisions have been made to our offices across the state to ensure hitch-free exercise at no cost to the citizens.

“As an immediate measure to arrest the ugly situation, the Commission has withdrawn the two staff from the field, issued them query and replaced them with another set of staff.

“Furthermore, all the electoral officers in the 23 LGA offices in the state have been directed to warn their staff to desist from extorting money from registrants before registering them.”

The commission added that “voter registration is absolutely free”, and urged residents to report illegal activities in any registration centre to the following numbers: 08036048515; 08067842987; or 08023070215

https://www.thecable.ng/extortion-inec-withdraws-two-officials-from-benue-lg-office-after-thecables-report/amp

Very good.
INEC should also do well to make the regis fully online especially for those who have previously captured their biometrics via BVN, NIN, SIM Card, NIMC, Driver's Licence etc.
They'll only need to link your data to existing NIN database.

Ghg

Good one

Please root them out. Can't people be honest for once?

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This is a wonderful development on the part of INEC and the good citizens of Benue.
I hope this enthusiasm goes on till election day.
Although I really detest Obituary supporters for their bile way of spiting insults against anyone who goes against their candidate,I heartily rejoice with them for already winning the Facebook, Instagram,Snapchat, WhatsApp, internet,online,and all the invisible polling units for online voters.
I'm very very happy that the crazy, animalistic and thieving social media influencers who can not win their polling unit offline in real life have been totally disgraced and humilated.
Ireeee ooo to the ONLINE OBITUARY SUPPORTERS,I can see that Reno Omokri,Fani-kayode,Japheth omojuwa,segelinks,Deji Adeyanju and all the other election online social media jagabajantis dare not make pim on social media or they will be devoured raw and spat upon.
God bless OBITUARY supporters.
Again ireee ooo to OBITUARY SUPPORTERS,pls make sure they don't use the social media like 2015 and 2019,and make sure you win the online election,at least we will know who is who on the day of election.
As for me,my vote is already on the mandate of Jagaban,no shaking.
God bless OBITUARY supporters
God bless Nigeria.........

Yahoo INEC

Everything nah scam....
Am sure they put people wey go rig that election well well.....

If to say naso inec dey do, all the elections for dey free and fair nah....