Election: INEC Begins Movement Of Non-sensitive Materials

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kano has begun the movement of non-sensitive materials to local government areas ahead of April 11, governorship and state House of Assembly elections.

The administrative secretary of the electoral body in Kano, Abdulrazak Tukur Yusuf told reporters at the INEC office yesterday that the commission in the state has already signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Association of Road Transport Workers (NARTW) in order to facilitate the movement of non-sensitive materials to local government areas.

He said the signing of the MoU with NARTW was informed by pockets of challenges encountered by the commission arising from inadequate number of vehicles to transport non-sensitive materials, “but I can tell you that we have overcome that challenge. We are planning it in such a way that before the eve of the election, all the non-sensitive materials must have reached their destinations.”

According to Tukur, INEC has finally resolved the hiccups experienced with the card reader. “We are not going to experience such problem again. It was discovered that the lamination on the screen of the card reader was not removed; but now, it has been removed and the machine is now picking finger prints.”

He also revealed that INEC is currently recruiting technicians as ad-hoc staff, “So that they would be on standby to work on any of the machines that broke down.