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Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says its operatives will be on ground to monitor the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States today.
The commission says it will be looking out for incidents of
vote-buying and selling, as well as other corruption-related acts.
A statement on the commissions
website read: “These infractions contravene sections 8 and 9 in addition
to other relevant provisions of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Act, 2000 prohibiting of the corrupt. The monitoring exercise is in
response to the invitation by the Chairman of the Independent National Election
Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, for ICPC to participate in ridding the
electoral processes in Nigeria of corrupt practices.
“This intervention is also
in furtherance of ICPC’s current strategy of engaging in exercises that have
macro rather than micro impact on various sectors of the country for the
benefit of the generality of citizens as it is doing with Constituency Projects
tracking and highway corruption where sundry acts of corruption are being
tackled with commendable results.”
Crimefacts.news reports that operatives of the commission have been primed to deal appropriately with perpetrators of any acts of corruption in accordance with the law, no matter their social status in both gubernatorial elections.
Voters in both states are therefore
enjoined to perform their civic obligations, while eschewing all acts that can
make them run afoul of the law. Liman Dexeris
