Officials of the National Anti-Corruption Volunteer Corps, a volunteer force set up by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission have apprehended a party agent with a list containing names of already registered voters at Oke Shokori quarters in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Our correspondent gathered that the list caught with the political agent contained 245 names already registered as voters at the Oke Shokori polling unit. He allegedly got the list from Direct Data Capture Machine.
According to the Ogun State coordinator of NAVC, Mr. Idris Abu, the political agent could not explain where he got the names and what he planned to do with them.
In an exclusive interview with our correspondent, Abu said, “Because of the sensitivity of the exercise, I mounted my men around registration booths to monitor what is happening. So, when I saw the man on the DDC machine writing down things, I knew he was not supposed to be there and people were complaining that they are not being attended to.
“So I approached him and asked what he was doing there. He told me nothing but when he saw that I understood what he was doing and was about to nab him, he ran away.
“I seized the exercise book he used in writing down the names and the names were 245, exactly the number of names captured on the machines.
“Then I asked the Independent National Electoral Commission’s staff as well as the civil defence corps at the unit why they allowed the man to download information from the DDC machine and they said they did not know what the man was doing.”
Abu said he photocopied the exercise book and lodged a report with the Resident Electoral Officer for the state, Deacon Martin Ogunfolami.
NAVC was set up in 2005 by the ICPC to enlist Nigerians with integrity to contribute as private citizens to the fight against corruption in the country.
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