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ABUJA—AS the 2015 general elections draw
nearer, the Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, has advised intending
observers of the poll to make their own
security arrangements.
This advice was given, yesterday, in Abuja
by the Chairman of INEC Prof Attahiru Jega,
in his remarks at a one- day workshop
organised by the commission, entitled
“Election Observation Outside Nigeria;
Lessons Learnt.”
Jega further stated that all over the world,
apart from Venezuela, election observers
were always responsible for their own
security, adding that this would also apply
to Nigeria since INEC would be saddled
with the engagement of security agencies
for the overall conduct of the polls.
Said he: “What we do in Nigeria is to liaise
with the security agencies to provide
security for the overall conduct of the
elections.
Observers to provide own security
“Observers can make their own security
arrangements. We even have some
countries like India that do not allow
anybody to observe their elections.
“However, we accept that the presence of
foreign observers adds credibility to the
outcome of the elections.”
Commenting on other arrangements being
put in place by INEC for the elections, Jega
disclosed that both the management and
staff of the commission had visited about
16 countries for peer review and
discovered the importance of planning
ahead, which he described as very tasking
to most countries.
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ICT influence
He further revealed that the application of
Information and Communication
Technology had helped in most countries,
especially in the developed ones, adding
that politicians in matured democracies
nevr took elections as a do-or-die affair,
unlike what was obtainable in many African
countries.
“Technology has helped to remove some
logistics problems which INEC has learnt
from, but I must add that the use of
technology in Nigeria would be difficult in
the collation of results so as to avoid what
happened in Kenya where a lot of crisis
ensued because of that situation.
“In matured democracies, even where
ordinary A4 paper is used as ballot paper
nothing happens,” Jega said.
Igbani speaks
Earlier in his welcome address, INEC’s
National Commissioner in charge of
Election Monitoring and Observation, Dr
Ismail Igbani, said the biggest challenge
facing the commission now was how to
conduct a free, fair and credible election in
2015.
He said it was very obvious that it would
not be an easy exercise.
He said: “All that is left is for all the
operatives that will play one role or the
other in the conduct of the elections to
endeavour to be above board in the
discharge of their responsibilities.”
Igbani further pointed out that it was
paramount that INEC continued to keep
abreast of universally accepted good
practices that are being introduced in many
parts of the world, insisting that the
commission could not afford to lag behind
in keeping up with global trends.

UN – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe
on Thursday berated the U.S. and former
colonial power Britain and its allies for
trying to control his nation and its
resources.
“Shame, shame, shame to the U.S. Shame,
shame, shame to Britain and its allies,”
Mugabe, 89, said in a speech to the UN
General Assembly.
“Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans, so are its
resources. Please remove your illegal and
filthy sanctions from my peaceful country.”
Mugabe said that the sanctions imposed by
the EU and the U.S. violated the UN Charter
on state sovereignty and condemned them
as a “foreign-policy tool to effect regime
change”.
The U.S. and the EU imposed sanctions on
Zimbabwean state firms and travel
restrictions on Mugabe and dozens of his
associates after a violent 2000 election, and
at the start of sometimes violent seizures of
white-owned commercial farms for black
resettlement.
Mugabe did not refer to the lifting of EU
sanctions on Sept. 17 against Zimbabwe
Mining Development Corp., which will allow
the diamond-mining firm to sell its
diamonds in Europe.
He said that sanctions constituted a form of
hostility and violence against his
government, which was only trying to
redistribute land to the majority of landless
Zimbabweans.
“Our small and peaceful country is
threatened daily by covetous and bigoted
big powers whose hunger for domination
and control of other nations and their
resources know no bounds,” he said.
He said that if the sanctions were intended
to unseat him from power “the results of
the recent national elections have clearly
shown you what they can do.”
Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since
independence from Britain in 1980,
overwhelmingly won a July 31 vote
extending his 33-year rule. His main rival,
Morgan Tsvangirai, denounced the poll as a
“huge fraud.”
Washington said the election was flawed
and that it does not plan to loosen
sanctions against Mugabe’s government.
Mugabe said the U.S. was determined to
continue its “relentless persecution” of
Zimbabwe, even though the AU and other
regional organisations had supported the
election result.
“It appears that when the U.S. and its allies
speak of democracy and freedom they are
doing so only in relative terms,” Mugabe
said.
“Zimbabwe, however, refuses to accept that
these Western detractors have the right to
define democracy and freedom for us.
“We paid the ultimate price for it and we
are determined never to relinquish our
sovereignty and remain master of our
destiny. Zimbabwe will never be a colony
again.”

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