By Vincent Okwor, Enugu

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Enugu state may soon move to some markets to enable traders to participate in the current continuous voter registration.

The idea, according to an offi­cial, is to ensure that the traders had no excuse not to participate in the exercise geared toward the 2019 general elections.

The chairman of the caretaker committee of Ogbete Main Market Traders Association, Hon. John Okechukwu Eze, told Orient Daily that arrangements had been con­cluded with the electoral umpire to move some of its staff members to the market for the exercise.

Eze, the immediate past chair­man of Enugu North local govern­ment area, said that the traders were finding it difficult to leave their business and travel to the local government headquarters to register, adding that with the re­location to the market, no trader can adduce any reason for failing to register.

“We are arranging with INEC to come to Ogbete to register our traders. The registration is very important to us because we must bring back our governor. He has been so good to us.

“Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is the only governor in the past 30 years to have entered Ogbete Market and built projects. He comes here and sees the market as it is and improves on the facilities as the need arises.

“Earlier this week, he commis­sioned the reconstructed main road to the market and the trad­ers are happy with that. The only thing we can do to pay him back is to ensure that Ogbete is delivered to him 100 per cent,’’ he said.

He said that it was the gover­nor’s love for peace in the market that made him to dissolve the pre­vious executive and set up a care­taker committee for the traders’ association, adding that a huge crisis was brewing before the com­mittee came on board.

“We have a mandate to con­duct elections into the executive committee but we have found out that a lot needs to be done. We need to put a lot of structures in place before the election.

“When we came in on Septem­ber 12, 2017, we found out that the association did not own any bank account. We have opened one now and the incoming executive will in­herit some money to operate with.

“We also discovered that the market was owing the Enugu State Waste Manage­ment Agency a huge debt and the agency stopped clearing wastes there. Today the traders are happy to pay their sanita­tion fees because the wastes are cleared regularly,’’ he said.

The chairman also said that the committee had beefed up securi­ty in the market with new gates mounted in all the entry points while it also built solar street lights at the Akwata end of the market.

He said that the committee was engaging in consultations to see whether itinerant traders who blocked access ways to the market could be relocated elsewhere.

https://orientdailynews.com.ng/south-east/inec-relocate-markets-voter-registration/




mynd44 lalasticlala seun

I think this is just media propaganda cos even when you visit some centres to register, there's crowd but yet they'd tell you they only register a certain number per day.
Last I checked I was told 120 a day.

Now why should it be so?
Make them no stop for market oh, they should come offices too