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Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by vislabraye(m): 10:17am On Mar 21, 2016
MISSCONGENIALITY:
I use to think that corpers are forced into conducting elections. Never knew they do it willingly.
Because I don't see how after reading stories of corper killed during election, I will carry these my two tiny legs and my big head to go and take part in any election activities. No way

Corp members are paid handsomely compared to their salary.
Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by MISSCONGENIALITY(f): 11:09am On Mar 21, 2016
vislabraye:


Corp members are paid handsomely compared to their salary.
but they are not forced to do it right?
Why I'm asking is because I'm a prospective Corp member and would not want to participate in anything elections even if they want to pay me heaven and earth.
Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by MISSCONGENIALITY(f): 11:12am On Mar 21, 2016
vislabraye:


Corp members are paid handsomely compared to their salary.
but they are not compelled to do it right?they just do it for the money and not cos they are forced right?
Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by vislabraye(m): 11:19am On Mar 21, 2016
MISSCONGENIALITY:
but they are not forced to do it right?
Why I'm asking is because I'm a prospective Corp member and would not want to participate in anything elections even if they want to pay me heaven and earth.

It used to be optional when I did mine. Infact, corp memebers were the ones hustling for the job.
Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by MISSCONGENIALITY(f): 11:21am On Mar 21, 2016
vislabraye:


It used to be optional when I did mine. Infact, corp memebers were the ones hustling for the job.
I will rather kill myself than u go on such a suicide mission. grin
Politicians are not worth the risk.

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Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by vislabraye(m): 11:28am On Mar 21, 2016
MISSCONGENIALITY:
I will rather kill myself than u go on such a suicide mission. grin
Politicians are not worth the risk.

In fact, I used to be an RO, Registration Officer. I was paid like 2,500 a day and it was for 1 to 2 weeks depending on how lucky you are. I didn't take part in the election proper cos we were not allowed. The money was mouth watering tongue
Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by alexandakin(m): 11:42am On Mar 21, 2016
missingrib:
remember the one that happened next month in Kaduna lere LGA to b precise where I was the APO 3...it wasn't funny o.but tank God sha..corpers are always involved in election becos they know we love money....corper wee
was @ Lazuru for the election too. I wasn't easy though. I'm also a serving corper in Lere
Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by Nobody: 11:54am On Mar 21, 2016
opribo:
A man who threatened to unleash blood if he didn't win an election is definitely a blood thirsty man and blood letting will surely trail his administration as he has started demonstrating.
PMB 2011 and the outcome!!!
Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by MISSCONGENIALITY(f): 2:28pm On Mar 21, 2016
vislabraye:


In fact, I used to be an RO, Registration Officer. I was paid like 2,500 a day and it was for 1 to 2 weeks depending on how lucky you are. I didn't take part in the election proper cos we were not allowed. The money was mouth watering tongue
that was then and 25k is too small compared to what those demons who call themselves politians steal everyday from people who voted them in.
But I'm sure they don't pay that much now.

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Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by tbanty1: 2:50pm On Mar 21, 2016
viviangist2:
MY EXPERIENCE AS APO 1 IN UNIT 6, WARD 4, OF EMOHUA LGA, IN RIVERS STATE SENATORIAL, STATE HOUSE OF REP AND NATIONAL HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY RE-RUN ELECTION ON 19/03/2016

I have been hearing that hudlums do snatch election materials from INEC officials during voting process until 19th March, 2016 when election materials were snatched in my polling unit where am acting as the Assistant Prisiding Officer 1(APO 1).
When we first arrived our RAC(Registration Area Center) on 18/03/2016, many people who are not INEC ad hoc staffs were seen hovering around the RAC. After collecting election material from our SPOs(Supervising Presiding Officers) at around 6:00AM, we set out to our various polling units after much delay. The buses that were conveying us to our various polling units were just crawling. Peole that are to work at different polling units were to move together accompanied by soldiers, SARS and police officers.
The crawling way of movement made us(my team-PO, APO 1, APO 11 and three police officers) to arrive our polling unit at around 3:20PM. We were the last people to reach their polling unit in our ward. The card reader failed after trying all the 10 fingers of the first person that came to vote. As the second person showed up for accreditation, a group of huddlums entered our polling unit from unknown where and made away with some of our election materials except our card reader(with me), ballot paper and election result(with the APO 11) . We all ran away including the 3 police men that were working with us. There was a pandemonium in the unit.
After the noises subsided, we re-converged at one place to discuss on how to move back to the LGA, since all the people that we called to come for our rescue who actually picked the call did not give us quick attention and there is only one road leading to the place except through water. One of the party agents among the two main party in Nigeria, who told us that the election materials were snatched by the other party member, offered to help us move out of the village. After much contemplation on whether we are save to move out of the village at that time or not, we agreed to move since we believed that the huddlums might come back to harm us or carry the remaining election materials. One of the villagers offered his car too. So, the police men entered the bus that conveyed us to the place and the rest of us with 2 of the villagers(the party agent and one other village boy) and the owner of the car left for the LGA.
On our way to the LGA, the party agent that were with us said that we have to pass through his party senetorial candidate to confess that it is other party member that snatched the materials from us. That was when we began to fill unconfortable with them. Then, th APO 11 insisted to board a car to Choba against the wish of the party agent and ours too. By then, we have lost the police men on the way from the community. The driver called me separately and asked me whether we and the party agent did not discuss anything? Which I sincerely replied that we did not discuss anything. On my own, I have decided not to meet or talk with the politician because some of them are heartless. After seeing how the guy was serious about taking us especially the woman(APO 11 who was with the result sheets and ballot paper) to the politician, the PO knelt down and begged the woman to give them the ballot paper and the election result sheets that she was carrying.
I left the scene with my phone on my ear as if i was making call. After I have given them about 300m gap to the LGA, I saw my PO running towards my direction. I asked him " what happened?" And he told me that the APO 11 has been tied and thrown into a Honda accord. Then, we ran together to the LGA. We saw many other corpers too who were complaining of the same snatch experience in their polling unit too. This is just the summary of what happened. Please, thank God with me for this is my true life story. I am a serving corp member in Emohua LGA of Rivers state

http://www.viviangist.com/rivers-rerun-my-experience-as-an-inec-worker-in-rivers-state-nysc-member
Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by Alezy(m): 2:51pm On Mar 21, 2016
nbright:
you saw the fake result sheet or you also heard about it?
what's the difference? ? if they show both sheets to u, honestly u can't tell which is fake. but the INEC men and youth service guys can tell cos they where given the original.

so if I heard from a reliable source, tell me why I shouldn't believe.
Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by tbanty1: 2:53pm On Mar 21, 2016
viviangist2:
MY EXPERIENCE AS APO 1 IN UNIT 6, WARD 4, OF EMOHUA LGA, IN RIVERS STATE SENATORIAL, STATE HOUSE OF REP AND NATIONAL HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY RE-RUN ELECTION ON 19/03/2016

I have been hearing that hudlums do snatch election materials from INEC officials during voting process until 19th March, 2016 when election materials were snatched in my polling unit where am acting as the Assistant Prisiding Officer 1(APO 1).
When we first arrived our RAC(Registration Area Center) on 18/03/2016, many people who are not INEC ad hoc staffs were seen hovering around the RAC. After collecting election material from our SPOs(Supervising Presiding Officers) at around 6:00AM, we set out to our various polling units after much delay. The buses that were conveying us to our various polling units were just crawling. Peole that are to work at different polling units were to move together accompanied by soldiers, SARS and police officers.
The crawling way of movement made us(my team-PO, APO 1, APO 11 and three police officers) to arrive our polling unit at around 3:20PM. We were the last people to reach their polling unit in our ward. The card reader failed after trying all the 10 fingers of the first person that came to vote. As the second person showed up for accreditation, a group of huddlums entered our polling unit from unknown where and made away with some of our election materials except our card reader(with me), ballot paper and election result(with the APO 11) . We all ran away including the 3 police men that were working with us. There was a pandemonium in the unit.
After the noises subsided, we re-converged at one place to discuss on how to move back to the LGA, since all the people that we called to come for our rescue who actually picked the call did not give us quick attention and there is only one road leading to the place except through water. One of the party agents among the two main party in Nigeria, who told us that the election materials were snatched by the other party member, offered to help us move out of the village. After much contemplation on whether we are save to move out of the village at that time or not, we agreed to move since we believed that the huddlums might come back to harm us or carry the remaining election materials. One of the villagers offered his car too. So, the police men entered the bus that conveyed us to the place and the rest of us with 2 of the villagers(the party agent and one other village boy) and the owner of the car left for the LGA.
On our way to the LGA, the party agent that were with us said that we have to pass through his party senetorial candidate to confess that it is other party member that snatched the materials from us. That was when we began to fill unconfortable with them. Then, th APO 11 insisted to board a car to Choba against the wish of the party agent and ours too. By then, we have lost the police men on the way from the community. The driver called me separately and asked me whether we and the party agent did not discuss anything? Which I sincerely replied that we did not discuss anything. On my own, I have decided not to meet or talk with the politician because some of them are heartless. After seeing how the guy was serious about taking us especially the woman(APO 11 who was with the result sheets and ballot paper) to the politician, the PO knelt down and begged the woman to give them the ballot paper and the election result sheets that she was carrying.
I left the scene with my phone on my ear as if i was making call. After I have given them about 300m gap to the LGA, I saw my PO running towards my direction. I asked him " what happened?" And he told me that the APO 11 has been tied and thrown into a Honda accord. Then, we ran together to the LGA. We saw many other corpers too who were complaining of the same snatch experience in their polling unit too. This is just the summary of what happened.
Please, thank God with me for this is my true life story. I am a serving corp member in Emohua LGA of Rivers state

http://www.viviangist.com/rivers-rerun-my-experience-as-an-inec-worker-in-rivers-state-nysc-member
i thank God un behalf of u sis. I was an ex corper in rivers state batch C, emohua local gvmt precisely.. Hmm, to b candid, dat local gvmt is one of d tough local gvnmts in rivers state. I cud remember d last tym we conducted election in our set, actin as an APO1 in akpabo, dats chidi llod's community. Evry single steps dere na riot my sis, come nd see ao dem useless our SPO in charge of our wards, cox he failed to release result sheets. During d 2nd phase of d election, dat one na completely hell to hell, snatching of ballot papers nd inec materials, with cutlass nd gunshot evry where around us. Hmmm.. Infact, na dat dae am conviced dat Jesus is coming soon. Thank God u re safe anyway. How is dat short dark LI nao 'Vivian'? Hope she don change from dat her nonsense habit?
Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by chichriso: 3:06pm On Mar 21, 2016
shame! shame!! shame !!!!! shameeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by missingrib(f): 3:06pm On Mar 21, 2016
BuddhaPalm:


I've heard time-travel is quite the experience.
lolzzz don't mind me just found out the s*lly error..CNT stop laffing myself
Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by missingrib(f): 3:08pm On Mar 21, 2016
AmAlbert:

Sista, no vex na correct I wan correct you no be laugh I dey laff you, e supposed to be LAST MONTH, no be NEXT MONTH... I come dry wonder if you be witch to know wetin go happen next month......
Sister abeg no carry me do prayer point o, if not I go yellow for you be that, you know say I kuku black like Kiwi Polish grin grin grin grin grin







*sips dogonyaro and aki with chewingGum
abeg make una no vex na typing mistake o

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Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by missingrib(f): 3:09pm On Mar 21, 2016
ThankGodEdeh:

Where in Lere L.G.A do you serve. I reside there.
mine is zango kataf just came down there for the election
Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by Okusi(m): 3:55pm On Mar 21, 2016
HALIX16:
Is it that people don't learn? So with all the potential issues surrounding this rerun, a corper will accept to do this job?
The smart ones I know do everything possible just not to be part of any elections; talk less of That of Rivers (Wike vs Amechi).
My advice to you is never to involve in such again. Most people that lost their lives were normal people like you. Don't think that being a corper will save you.
my bro, I'm also serving in Rivers. we were not forced to participate. I was in my lodge alone that day enjoying my life. None of the corps member that participated did it for the love of d nation. They all did it for the sake of money neglecting what they've been seeing in d media. In my PPA, all APC members but few (strong ones) flee from d community a day before election all because the Islanders there had boasted to kill them if they show up. This isn't politics!!!!
Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by lastpage: 8:34pm On Mar 21, 2016
ibitzbarlow:


OP, why are you not bold enough to mention the name of the party responsible for the tieing of your PO? From your story, anybody that is from Rivers State or knows Rivers can deduce the party and Senatorial candidate responsible for your ordeal. Let me state here that the Senatorial contest for Rivers East, of which Emohua is part of has Sekibo ( an OKrika man) for the PDP and Andrew Uchendu (an Ikwerre man from Emohua) for the APC.

So the party agent that wants to take you to his Senatorial candidate in the same Emohua on election day must be from the APC. Be bold and say it the way it is. It's APC that truncated the process in your polling unit.

What kind of "poisoned weed" are you smoking?

Get real!
grin grin grin grin



Lastpage!
Re: Rivers Rerun: Corps Member's Experience As INEC Worker by ibitzbarlow(m): 12:39am On Mar 23, 2016
lastpage:


What kind of "poisoned weed" are you smoking?

Get real!
grin grin grin grin



Lastpage!

I'm very real bro! The Op understands my point. My points are valid and on point. The Senatorial candidate of either of the two parties who is from the said area is that of the APC so please do your maths and get the answer.

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