A hunter who had hopes of getting some bush meat which he will sell and earn some cash, has found PVCs which are supposed to be in the office of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC).
Thousands of voters cards were found in a forest in in Nnewi, a community in Anambra State.
You see, when many complain of not getting their Permanent Voter’s Card, not much of them are aware their cards could be in the forest waiting for the rain to wash their data off.
One way of rigging an election is disenfranchising many people and one way to achieve that is keeping the PVCs away from them.
The huge find by the hunter is raising so much suspicion, especially as INEC had failed to speak on the matter.
An analysts says the commission’s silence indicates that it is not up to its functions.
It became more suspicious when all efforts to reach out to the INEC spokesperson in Anambra State, Dr Kingsley Agu, for comment on the discovered PVCs proved abortive.
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PVC’s In The Bush
The hunter took the PVCs to Authority FM radio station in the state and a staff seen in the video expressed displeasure over the development.
However, a staff of the radio station identified as Ikenna, who received the PVCs from the hunter, told journalists that the PVCs were later moved to the palace of the Umudim traditional ruler.
Meanwhile, a video was said to have circulated on Wednesday showing the community’s people sorting the cards to try to locate owners whom they knew.
INEC’s Silence
A public affairs analyst, Ejike Uzo, faults INEC in the state for its silence over the issue almost 24 hours after it went viral.
Uzo said: “INEC in Anambra is not alive to their functions. PVC is the property of INEC, printed by INEC and meant to be distributed to its owners.
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“Now, these cards were printed, and INEC could not get them to the owners, and eventually they found their way into a bush and someone intercepted it, and up till this moment, INEC has not been able to say how the cards left their office to the bush.
“If you ask me, INEC is complicit in this and their inability to talk to the public is even more embarrassing.
“It is now the people that are distributing INEC PVCs to its owners, while INEC officials sit and mope.
“This is too bad.
“INEC in Anambra has questions to answer.
“That the cards got to Anambra from Abuja before finding their way into the forest shows that INEC in Anambra has questions to answer”.
