….Think out
of the box, INEC Chairman tells Operations & Logistics Officer
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has scheduled
the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise for Edo and Ondo states to
hold from Wednesday, 22nd to
Sunday, 26thJune, 2016.
The five-day exercise will provide an opportunity for the
following eligible category of the citizens of Edo and Ondo states to register:
1) Those who
were eligible but did not register before the 2015 General Elections;
2) Those who
are eligible but whose names are not in the Register of Voters; and
3) Those who
have attained the age of 18 (eighteen) years since the last voter registration
exercise.
The CVR exercise will take place at the Registration Area
Centres/Wards level. It will
also commence daily (during the scheduled five days) from 9.00am to 4.00pm.
Every person who is qualified for registration and who has
presented himself/herself for registration shall be registered with the
following:
a) The
registrant’s name;
b) The
registrant’s age;
c) The
registrant’s gender;
d) The
registrant’s occupation;
e) Address
within the area;
f) The
registrant’s phone number and or e-mail address (Optional);
g) The
registrant’s photograph;
h) The name
of the State where registration is taking place;
i) The name
of the Local Government Area/Area Council of registration;
j) Name and
code number of the registration unit;
k) The
registrant’s ten fingerprints; and
l) National
identity card number (where available).
1. No person
shall register in more than one registration centre, or register more than once
in the same registration centre;
2. Any
person who registers in more than one registration centre commits an offence,
and is liable to prosecution;
3. Only
eligible voters who have registered and have their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs)
will be allowed to vote in the Edo and Ondo Governorship elections scheduled
for Saturday, 10thSeptember and Saturday, 26th November, 2016, respectively; and
4. The Smart
Card Reader (SCR) will be deployed to verify and authenticate eligible voters
during accreditation for the two elections.
At any time during the continuous registration of voters, an
applicant may apply to the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the State where
the voter is currently resident through the Registration Officer to be
transferred to a new constituency, provided that this is done not later than 45
days before the dates of the two governorship elections.
Meanwhile, the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has charged
Operations and Logistics Officers across the country to think out of the box so
that at the end of the day the Commission would be better informed,
enthusiastic and equipped with knowledge of effective electoral, operational
and logistical strategies towards the 2019 General Elections.
Professor Yakubu urged the officers to deliberate on the
major challenges of electoral operations and logistics and to generate ideas
and come up with strategic and implementable recommendations.
The INEC Chairman who was represented by Dr. Muhammad Mustapha
Lecky, a National Commissioner and a member of the Electoral Operations and
Logistics Committee (EOLC) identified a number of thorny issues which he
insisted could not be glossed over. They include: responding to communities'
desire to maximize voters turn out by ensuring fair and adequate provision of
Polling Units (PUs) which if not addressed would lead to disenfranching size
able proportion of voters; the integrity of Election Materials, especially with
regard to their availability and correct identification and distribution to
specific locations; late arrival of materials, especially ballot papers and
result sheets and the adequacy of transportation arrangements, especially for
difficult terrains.
The INEC Chairman called the attention of amendments visited to
the Electoral Act at the eve of the 2015 General Elections. He said the
amendments had implications for electoral operations and logistics and they
needed to be thoroughly examined ahead of the 2019 General Elections and others
pending.
Speaking at the five-day workshop which is taking place at Westown
Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, the Chairman of the Electoral Operations and Logistics
Committee, Hajiya Amina Bala Zakari, observed that the workshop was the first
of its kind in the Commission's annals. She charged the participants to
strategize and make useful inputs which would subsequently be factored into the
impending 2017-2021 Strategic Plan.
In his goodwill message, the President of the Chartered Institute
of Logistics and Transport, Major General U.T. Usman (rtd) expressed delight
that the Commission was partnering with his Institute in organizing the
workshop. He appealed to INEC to put its Operations and Logistics staff to go
through his Institute's training and certification.
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) was
founded in 1958.
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