About 30 ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kogi, who were unaccounted for at their stationed polling units following the arrival of gunmen at their duty posts have been found.
This was disclosed by Rotimi Oyekanmi, Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman who released a statement stating the safe return of the earlier declared missing persons.
“We can now confirm that all the 30 ad-hoc staff engaged for the 2019 Kogi Governorship election and posted to Polling Units 002, 006 and 013 at Olamaboro III; and Polling Units 006, 012, 015, 016, 022 at Imani 1 all in Olamaboro Local Government Area have been accounted for. They are safe, sound and back in their respective homes. The Chairman of the Commission has personally spoken with some of them and they confirmed that they are hale and hearty”, he said.
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According to Oyekanmi, the staff were able to complete their assignment before the violent attacks began.
“These election-day duty staff could not be accounted for initially following the violent attacks by some armed thugs at their respective duty posts after the close of polls. The Commission has established that none of them was either injured or killed. They were able to successfully conclude the result collation process before the commotion started,”