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Home 2023 Elections

INEC Set To Curb Vote Buying, Rolls Out Secret Security Operatives To Polling Units

“As far as the commission is concerned, our mandate is to organise, undertake and supervise elections and that’s exactly what we’re going to do..."

by NewsOnline Nigeria
October 5, 2022
in 2023 Elections, Politics
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INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rolled out measures to curb vote buying and increase transparency during the 2023 general elections. 

 

Newesonline reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said it is set to roll out security operatives to pollen units as measures to curb vote buying and increase transparency during the  2023 general elections.

 

This was disclosed by Festus Okoye, INEC’s national commissioner, on Tuesday, during the citizens’ elections dialogue hosted by YIAGA Africa and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with Channels TV.

Also: INEC Rolls Out Strict Guidelines For 2023 Election Campaigns

 

Okoye said the commission is committed to carrying out its mandate in upholding a transparent and accountable electoral system.

 

“This commission is focused and determined to give Nigerians a good election. In terms of the issue of vote buying, the commission has reconfigured the various polling units to guarantee the secrecy of the votes,” the national commissioner said.

 

“In terms of training of ad-hoc staff, we’ve given them very good training and we’ll continue to train them on how to configure and position the voting cubicle to guarantee the secrecy of the votes.

 

“We have also made sure that people do not enter the voting compartments with their mobile phones that can take pictures and we’re also collaborating with the different security agencies under the auspices of the inter-agency consultative committee on election security to make sure that plain clothe security personnel are deployed to some polling units on election day to stem the issue of vote buying and vote selling.

 

“It’s fashionable to grandstand relating to the commitment of the INEC to free, fair and transparent election. But you should also flip back and look at some of the party primaries that some of the political parties conducted and how well they conducted them.

 

“As far as the commission is concerned, our mandate is to organise, undertake and supervise elections and that’s exactly what we’re going to do and that’s what we’re going to continue to do.”

 

Okoye said the commission made a deliberate effort to include technology in the electoral process to avoid “human interference”.

 

“We deliberately decided to include technology in the electoral process in order to alleviate pernicious human interference in that process,” he said.

 

“We’re going to make sure technology is deployed and we’re also going to make sure that we transmit polling unit results into our INEC viewing portal.”

 

Okoye added that the commission will do “whatever it takes to guarantee free, fair, transparent and inclusive” elections in 2023.

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