November 27, (THEWILL) – Suspected arsonists on Sunday, razed down a local office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in Ebonyi State.
INEC National Commissioner & Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday night, said the incident occurred at about 10 a.m. at Izzi Local Government Area office in Iboko.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Onyeka Ugochi, had informed INEC headquarters, Abuja, of the development, according to the statement.
Okoye said, “Although no casualties resulted from the attack, the main building and all the movable and immovable items inside it were destroyed.
“These include 340 ballot boxes, 130 voting cubicles, 14 electric power generators, large water storage tanks, assorted office furniture and fixtures and yet to be determined quantities of Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs).”
This is the third attack on an INEC local office in less than three weeks following similar attacks on the commission’s offices in Ogun and Osun States on November 10, Okoye said, adding that the attack had been reported to the police and other security agencies.
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