Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, has stated that the commission would have prosecuted close to one million Nigerians for multiple registrations, but it lacks the resources to do so.

Jega disclosed this on Monday while speaking on a Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, which was monitored by Aproko247. The INEC boss lamented that because of lack of personnel and resources, most offenders of multiple registrations go scot free.

“On registration alone, we have evidences to prosecute close to one million people for cases of multiple registrations, but we lack resources and personnel to do that,” Jega said.

He, however, noted that the commission would transfer the power to prosecute offenders to another agency. Jega revealed that INEC is presently talking to the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, on the matter and expressed hope that conclusion would be reached soon.

“We are discussing with the NBA on a possible partnership with them” the INEC boss said, adding that, “we will do it though it is very challenging. The best thing is to have another agency that can actually prosecute electoral offenders.”

Source: www.aproko247.com/?p=4448

interesting.

indirectly admitting that the election was highly rigged!

To think we trusted this man with our collective destiny!

smh for Jegga!

At a time when agencies are been merged and scrapped, this man is advocating for a new agency.
it would have been better if jega can form a ring with the ministry of justice or icpc to help in the prosecutions. He can as well set up a dedicated commitee within inec to work closely with icpc I.e if inec can reach a consensus with them. Federal government can as well forget about scrapping icpc but give it the added task of prosecuting electoral offenders.

After millions of fingers printed on our behalf, the result was a win for Jonathan - I now see who it was printed for.