So Attahiru Jega reckons that the INEC needs N55billion to successfully do the voters register. Well, if you read NEXT, it is 55, if you read Punch it is 72. For the purpose of this write-up, let us work with the smaller sum.

What I find interesting is this: Prof. Jega drew on the example of Bangladesh in making his claims. According to him, and he is quite correct, it took the Bangladeshis eight months to complete their voters' registration. We have four months. He also says that the Bangladeshis completed their registration with 30 000 units of the scanning machine. Then he points out that the machines cost $2000 per unit.

30 000 units at a cost of $2000 each would come to $60,000,000. Multiply that by 150 (converting to Naira), and we get N9,000,000,000. Unless my Maths is incredibly faulty, that is N9billion! Even if we make room for a doubling of the number of machines needed because we have half the time that Bangladesh had, we would still arrive at N18billion. So where does this extra N37billion that would make the lower limit of N55billion come from?

More questions, fewer answers,

I don't expect any free and fair election in 2011 unless they use the option A4: open secret ballot used in 1993. Jega should just make some quick money off the FG.

Just curious, whats the population of Bangladesh?

Chxta longest time. Hope this is not your clone?lol