Vigilant observers have discovered that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) registered underage children as eligible voters in Bauchi State of Northern Nigeria. The children have been registered to rig the elections commencing on Saturday April 14, 2007.
Vigilant observers have discovered that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) registered underage children as eligible voters in Bauchi State of Northern Nigeria.
The villagers in Denga village, Guyaba district of Kirfi local government said INEC officials invited them to register their teenage children for the April polls and they did, because the government official promised them many things.
The Daily Trust newspaper of Monday April 9, 2007, quoted one Mallam Abdurrahman Jalo.
"We were asked to present our children, they said it is for clinic, road and water, we didn't know it was for election," Mallam Jalo said.
Observers have also noticed several duplications of the same registered voters.
The Daily Trust reported Monday, that the head of INEC's public affairs unit in Bauchi, Alhaji SD Garba admitted that the chairman of INEC has accepted responsibility of the flaws recorded on the voters' register.
But how and why should the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) register children to vote in the elections?
How many children are going to vote on Saturday April 14 and again on Saturday April 21?
How can INEC conduct free and fair elections where children have been registered to vote?
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