INEC Office Set Ablaze, 340 Ballot Boxes, Other Properties Destroyed In Ebonyi
Category: Nigeria News
The office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Izzi
Local Government Area of Ebonyi State has been set ablaze by hoodlums.
The hoodlums razed down the building in the early hours of Sunday,
DAILY POST learnt.
INEC Chairman, Information and Voter Education
Committee, Festus Okoye, confirmed this in a tweet.
READ: Electrical Fire Safety
The tweet quoted INEC’s Resident Commissioner for Ebonyi State, Mrs
Onyeka Pauline Ugochi, as saying the incident occurred around 10am.
While properties and the building were destroyed, no casualty was
recorded.
Some of the properties razed down included 340 ballot
boxes, 14 power generators, 130 voting cubicles, large water storage tanks,
office furniture and a large number of voter cards which has not been
ascertained at the time of the report.
READ: INEC Electoral Institute Gutted By Fire, Commission Says No Sensitive Material Destroyed
INEC reports that this is the third attack on their facility after the
offices in Ogun and Osun states were attacked on the 10th of November 2022.
Ebonyi state governor should be questioned, period!
ReplyDeletesee stupid trick o... Nigeria🤔🤔 una no get another clue rather than burning burning burning of some area's voters card
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