We will continue to track election materials – INEC
Tunde Opalana, Abuja
The Independent National Commission (INEC) has said that it will perfect its strategies to ensure that tracking of materials deployed for elections in the country come to stay.
The Commission said this will prevent tampering with sensitive election materials, complicity of election process by politicians and INEC staff and infractions on Election results.
INEC National Commissioner, Prince Solomon Soyebi, said this while responding to questions at the debriefing of accredited observers for the 2019 general election held at the International Conference Center, Abuja on Wednesday.
He said a developed application device meant to track the movement of its deployed election materials was used conduct recent elections including Ekiti and Osun governorship elections
He said: “I can confirm that the tracking device is working well.
“We are tracking our election materials and the vehicle that are conveying them. The issue of tracking of election materials has come to stay.”
Earlier in her remark, the chairperson of Election Planning and Monitoring Committee of INEC, Prof. Antonia Okoosi-Simbine, said that the debriefing session was a platform provided by the Commission for Observers to discuss field experiences during the elections towards providing useful lessons for the conduct of future elections.
Okoosi-Simbine said that the de-briefing exercise served as a precursor to the more comprehensive reports the Commission was expecting from the observer groups.
“Accordingly, the debriefing session offers us the opportunity to discuss a variety of issues, focusing on various aspects of the electoral process,” she said.
Okoosi-Simbine said that going by the Commission’s record, a total of 120 Domestic and 36 Foreign Groups were accredited for the 2019 General Election.
She added that submissions by the observer groups also indicated that over 85,000 Observers were deployed and participated in each of the two (2) elections.
“The final assessment on the levels of Observer participation is being obtained from our respective State Offices.”
