INEC Prosecutes Electoral Offenders

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has started taking legal actions against electoral offenders, including electoral officers, in the 2015 general elections.

The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, said that those being prosecuted included a former Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) as well as youth corps members.

The INEC chairman as well made mention of electoral officers who were not staff of the commission and ran away with result sheets would be reported to their parent institutions.

He gave an example of an individual in Adamawa who had been charged six months imprisonment for retaining numerous PVCs.