Hoodlums raze INEC office in Abia

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State has been set on fire by punks.

An assertion delivered by the National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee Festus Okoye, today May 10, says the consumed office was as of late redesigned. The assertion added further that this was not the first run through the Commission's office was assaulted in the state of late.

The assertion peruses

"The Commission met today, Monday tenth May 2021, and talked about a wide-scope of issues, including an upsetting report from Abia State. The Resident Electoral Commissioner for the State, Dr. Joseph Iloh, detailed that INEC's as of late revamped office in Ohafia Local Government Area has been set on fire.

The occurrence happened late on Sunday night, ninth May 2021. There are no losses with respect to our staff careful obligation however the structure was for all intents and purposes annihilated. Aside from furniture things, every electing material and office hardware were annihilated", the assertion read.

The matter has been accounted for to the police for examination.

It will be reviewed that solitary a week ago, the Commission announced an assault on its office in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State and communicated uneasiness about the effect of such assaults on constituent exercises, including the progressing development of elector admittance to Polling Units, resumption of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR), forthcoming bye-decisions, end-of-residency races and eventually the 2023 General Election.

The most recent occurrence in Abia State is an excessive amount. This isn't the principal assault on the Commission's offices in the State as of late. Five months prior on thirteenth December 2020, the INEC LGA office in Aba South was totally burned to the ground while that of Arochukwu LGA was vandalized and scoured in October 2020.

These offices are public resources, which should be ensured. Likewise, the Commission is gathering a crisis meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) one week from now to examine this upsetting pattern.

Then, the Commission wishes to promise Nigerians that all exercises corresponding to the progressing development of elector admittance to Polling Units and arrangements for the resumption of CVR just as totally booked races will continue as arranged."