The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday slammed an indefinite suspension on three of its staff over their alleged involvement in the fraud that allegedly characterized the 2015 general election in Delta State.
Two of the victims, who are store keepers of the commission’s headquarters in Asaba, were said to have cloned the election materials brought to one of the commission’s local government offices with the aim of falsifying the supplementary election of Delta Central Senatorial District conducted on April 25, 2015.
“They are to remain suspended until the final determination of the matter by the National Headquarters of INEC,” a top management source, who confirmed the suspension said.
Their case was also linked to the stealing of result-sheets sold to a leader of the Labour Party in the state, Esiri Onoduwereho, who is currently cooling off at the Criminal Investigation Department of the state police command.
Onoduwereho had posed as an agent of the party, having allegedly applied for Certified Copies of Results for Tribunal purposes at the commission’s office in Asaba and in the process of documentation fled the scene.
The alarm raised by the commission’s officials resorted in the immediate search for Onoduwereho until detectives smoked him out of his hideout last week.
The affected staff were however caught and suspended in Asaba on Tuesday by top management officers of the commission for “negligence of duty and apparent conspiracy”.
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