{"id":35543,"date":"2021-05-19T15:17:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T14:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=35543"},"modified":"2021-05-19T15:17:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T14:17:41","slug":"attacks-on-our-offices-may-affect-elections-inec-raises-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/19\/attacks-on-our-offices-may-affect-elections-inec-raises-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Attacks on our offices may affect elections \u2013 INEC raises alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said the attacks on the Commission facilities across the country could undermine the conduct of the next general elections.<\/p>\n<p>He made the observation, on Wednesday, at an emergency meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners across the country held in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cSurely, these attacks are no longer freak events but appear to be quite orchestrated and targeted at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicanng.com\/breaking-inec-raises-alarm-says-attacks-on-facilities-may-affect-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INEC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly, these are acts of unjustifiable aggression which may undermine the Commission\u2019s capacity to organise elections and dent the nation\u2019s electoral process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The number of offices of the Commission that have been torched is now 23.<\/p>\n<p>A breakdown of the incidents showed that the most affected states include Akwa Ibom (four), Abia (three) Anambra (two) and Imo (two).<\/p>\n<p>Other states that witnessed fire incidents between February 2019 and May 2021 are Borno, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Kano, Ondo, Plateau and Rivers. Abuja was also affected.<\/p>\n<p>Yakubu in a statement shared by INEC\u2019S official twitter handle @inecnigeria, lamented that the spate of arson and vandalisation targeting the Commission\u2019s facilities and property has become profoundly worrisome.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads in part; \u201cUnfortunately, some events in the recent past have challenged the Commission and adversely affected our commitment to continue to improve the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe spate of arson and vandalisation targeting the Commission\u2019s facilities and property has become profoundly worrisome<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, this has been on the rise since the 2019 General Election but has now developed into a crisis. In the last three weeks or so, three of our LGA offices in Essien Udim in Akwa Ibom State, Ohafia in Abia State &amp; Udenu in Enugu State have been set ablaze by unidentified persons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast Sunday, 16th May 2021, our State office in Enugu suffered yet another arson and vandalisation in which parts of the building were ransacked and several vehicles razed. And more of our facilities are being systematically targeted and attacked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust last night, Tuesday 18th May 2021, two more offices in Ebonyi and Ezza North Local Government Areas of Ebonyi State were burnt down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough there were no casualties, the damage to the physical infrastructure and electoral materials was total. Nothing has been salvaged from ballot boxes and voting cubicles to generating sets and office furniture and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe facilities of the Commission are there to serve the local communities for the most fundamental aspect of democratic governance, which is elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, targeting such important national assets and repositories of electoral materials that took time and enormous resources to procure cannot be justified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReplacing these facilities in the prevailing economic circumstances will indeed be a tall order, thereby adversely affecting electoral services in the same communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese facilities are not only limited to voting but also used for other critical electoral activities such as voter registration, the coordination of stakeholder engagements and voter education and sensitisation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commission will certainly work with the security agencies to deal with the perpetrators of these heinous crimes according to the law. To this end, a meeting with all the security agencies is holding on Monday 24th May 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, it has become imperative to call on all and sundry, particularly communities where these assets are located, to see themselves as owners and custodians of these facilities and assist the Commission in protecting them,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said the attacks on the Commission facilities across the country could undermine the conduct of the next general elections. He made the observation, on Wednesday, at an emergency meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners across the country held in Abuja. 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