Some unindentified soldiers on
Saturday impounded the official car of
the Delta Commissioner of
Information, Mr Chike Ogeah, at a
polling station where he went to be
accredited to vote. Ogeah told
newsmen at St. John Bosco’s Catholic
Church, Ward 6, Oshimili South Local
Government Area, his polling station,
that some armed soldiers in three
vehicles accosted him.
The commissioner said that he had
been accredited and was leaving the
polling station when the armed
soldiers swooped on him.
“One of the soldiers ordered me to
stop at the centre of the road and
surrender my car key to him. He
insisted that if I did not obey him he
would shoot me.
“I even identified myself and he
wouldn’t listen and I decided to give
him the key to stop further
harassment,” he said. Other residents
complained of such harassment by
soldiers on their way to and from
polling stations.
Mrs Bridget Anyafulu, the Executive
Director of International Centre for
Women Empowerment and Child
Development, an NGO, corroborated
Ogeah’s complaint.
Anyafulu said that she was harassed
along Summit Road Asaba on her way
to the polling station, at Umuadaike
Ward 8, Oshimili South . She noted
that the soldiers’ action discouraged
some voters from casting their votes.
When contacted, the Police Public
Relations (PPRO) in the state, Mrs
Celestina Kalu, confirmed the incident.
Kalu told pressmen that the
commissioner had informed her about
the incident and added that the
situation in the polling station had
been put under control and his car
released to him.

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