The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, said on Wednesday that the commission would not allow security operatives to be masked during the 2015 general elections.

Jega said this in Abuja during an interactive session with both local and international civil society organisations involved in monitoring elections in the country.
He had on Tuesday, during the public hearing organised by the House of Representatives on the bill for the amendment of the Electoral Act, 2010, backed a proposed amendment that would confer the exclusive power to manage and assign security men during elections on INEC.
The bill also sought to limit the role of the military during elections.
Jega told the CSO representatives on Wednesday that the emerging trend of security operatives wearing mask during elections was worrisome.
According to him, the wearing of hood by security men during elections is not in tandem with the principle of transparency guiding the conduct of an election.He said, “In recent times, we have witnessed an increased presence of hooded security operatives during elections. This is an emerging trend which is highly worrisome and which needs to be addressed in good time.
“Security agents who are deployed on election duties should not be masked, the doctrine of transparency requires that they should be identifiable.
“We will not allow such persons during the 2015 elections. Any security personnel deployed for the election must be someone identifiable such that if anything happens we will be able to know who to hold responsiblemJega also decried the over-zealousness of some security agents during the August 9 governorship election in Osun state.
He disclosed that security operatives had erroneously arrested some members of staff of the commission and nine youth corp members, engaged as INEC ad-hoc staff, were erroneously arrested and kept in detention for over 12 hours.He said that they were arrested around 9pm on the eve of the election while on their way to the Registration Area Centers, RACs, which was provided for them by the Commission.“They were not released until about 6am the next day, a situation that almost disrupted the distribution of electoral materials in some areas.
“It was sheer luck that we still managed to open the polling units early, otherwise, there would have been disaster. We took a serious view of that and reported the matter to all the appropriate authorities because at a point we became worried that some persons wanted to undermine our effort.”

He however maintained that the perceived over militarization of the just concluded governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states, did not deter electorate from voting for their desired candidate.

He said, “In fact, the two elections proved that there was a high correlation between the massive deployment of security and the willingness of people to come out and vote.

“Apart from over-zealousness on the part of some of the security men on the field, we discovered that people actually felt more secured to exercise their franchise. The key lesson our politicians need to learn from the two elections is that the era has gone when they relied on corrupt electoral officers or security agents to manipulate elections.

“In this era, any politician that intend to win election must reach out and convince the voters, be it through ‘stomach-infrastructure’ or otherwise. The only guarantee to win election now is to let the voters come out to vote for you, which in turn means that you must first of all convince them on your credibility.

He also disclosed that prior to the Osun State election, some “unscrupulous elements” had attempted to use software to rig the poll.

[b]He said, “We discovered that some people had invaded our system with software that was reducing age on the register. Thank God that we discovered it before it was too late and had to put aside the register and produced another one, even though it was at a very high cost.[/b]

“Despite the challenge, the Osun State election has been adjudged as one of the best we have conducted recently when judged by all variables for assessing a successful election. Though the election was not perfect, we however did a lot to improve on the Ekiti election.

“It is also worthy to mention that before the Osun election, security agents were able to identify thugs that were imported into the state by politicians.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/2015-we-wont-allow-hooded-security-operatives-says-jega/

its ok..

I hope the trend will be maintained

Could there ever be a perfect election in this country?

So finally APC aren't the agent of lies as PDP painted them to be

APC and lies. Yes their were masked people in osun election staged by APC that robbed and harass PDP members I'm osogbo and that was how APC won.

Obanikoro clearly stated that those masked people pretending to be security operatives were not directives from the fg and Aregbesola knew this.

Also these masked security personnels as APC will coin them were only present in Osun after they lost ekiti which was free and fair.

It is just a shame how APC has reduce punch and other editorial news media to lie mohammeds

Wind don blow and the fowl yansh is exposed!

aljharem: APC and lies. Yes their were masked people in osun election staged by APC that robbed and harass PDP members I'm osogbo and that was how APC won.

Obanikoro clearly stated that those masked people pretending to be security operatives were not directives from the fg and Aregbesola knew this.

Also these masked security personnels as APC will coin them were only present in Osun after they lost ekiti which was free and fair.

It is just a shame how APC has reduce punch and other editorial news media to lie mohammeds

What is this one saying?

Anyone around to help?

PassingShot:
What is this one saying?
Anyone around to help?

Of course you wouldn't know. The fact is APC rigged the election in Osun. Their was no way they could have won and that was why aregbesola was on his knees

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aljharem: APC and lies. Yes their were masked people in osun election staged by APC that robbed and harass PDP members I'm osogbo and that was how APC won.
Obanikoro clearly stated that those masked people pretending to be security operatives were not directives from the fg and Aregbesola knew this.
Also these masked security personnels as APC will coin them were only present in Osun after they lost ekiti which was free and fair.
It is just a shame how APC has reduce punch and other editorial news media to lie mohammeds

[/s]Really? Has Jega also joined APC? Or even Punch? The article clearly states that the masked men were deployed military men, but your habitual haste to demonize anything that is against your god didn't even allow for a few minutes of perusal.

BTW, this your movement na wa! You were in Ife a while ago, now you're in Osogbo. Next tomorrow you'll be in Ede. You lie rather poorly, harem.

aljharem: APC and lies. Yes their were masked people in osun election staged by APC that robbed and harass PDP members I'm osogbo and that was how APC won.
Obanikoro clearly stated that those masked people pretending to be security operatives were not directives from the fg and Aregbesola knew this.
Also these masked security personnels as APC will coin them were only present in Osun after they lost ekiti which was free and fair.
It is just a shame how APC has reduce punch and other editorial news media to lie mohammeds

Every lie told just as the one above needs repentance.

Even before the elections, everybody saw how Omisore was going about with hooded security guys around him!

aljharem:
Of course you wouldn't know. The fact is APC rigged the election in Osun. Their was no way they could have won and that was why aregbesola was on his knees

What gave you this assurance?

aljharem:

Of course you wouldn't know. The fact is APC rigged the election in Osun. Their was no way they could have won and that was why aregbesola was on his knees

You mean it is comprehensible for Omisore/PDP to have genuinely scored almost 300,000 votes from six local governments but illogical for APC/Aregbe to poll less than 400,000 from 20 or so local governments.

Well, i'm not here to waste my time on that subject. What is clear is that PDP attempted to subvert the wish of Osun people by intimidating, harassing and arresting opposition figures before and during the election. Now that they've been found out, they will need to find another crude strategy for future elections. While at it, electorates are resolving not to be deceived anymore.

PassingShot:
You mean it is comprehensible for Omisore/PDP to have genuinely scored almost 300,000 votes from six local governments but illogical for APC/Aregbe to poll less than 400,000 from 20 or so local governments.
Well, i'm not here to waste my time on that subject. What is clear is that PDP attempted to subvert the wish of Osun people by intimidating, harassing and arresting opposition figures before and during the election. Now that they've been found out, they will need to find another crude strategy for future elections. While at it, electorates are resolving not to be deceived anymore.

Why are you making him task his brain with such mathematical extrapolation. People like him just talk for the sake of talking! I guess you need to despatch Paracetamol to him fast!

PDP propaganda Exposed!!!!!!!!
Abi Jega is also in APC?

Apc s keep deceiving yourselves to think you won thus it was free and fair.

We on ground know the truth. We don't deal with news papers and propaganda .

aljharem: Apc s keep deceiving yourselves to think you won thus it was free and fair.

We on ground know the truth. We don't deal with news papers and propaganda .

Be ashamed of yourself for once. Early morning giberish.

Mods frontpage pls.

Mynd44
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