Over 300 Voters Cards dumped in uncompleted building in Bayelsa

Barely three weeks after over 10,000 Permanent Voters Cards PVCs were found in a drainage in Rivers State, over 300 Voters Card were found inside an uncompleted building in Bayelsa State.

Hunters in Bayelsa State have discovered over 320 Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, allegedly stashed by hoodlums in a bag and dumped inside an uncompleted building along the AIT/Elebele road in Yenogoa Bayelsa.

Reports have it that the hunters have, however, handed over the PVCs to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday July 27, in Yenagoa, the state capital.

While handing over the cards to INEC, the Commandant of the association, Moses Okanu, disclosed that the items were recovered when his men were combing the bushes and forests on Tuesday around Azikoro and Elebele in the state.

 He further stated that the hunters were attracted by a noise in the forest, and upon approaching the uncompleted building, the occupants of the facility fled the scene.

They Said: “We have been combing the bushes in the nooks and crannies because of the happening we have been hearing in the bushes. We started from Azikoro and went through Elebele.

In the course of our going round, we ran into an uncompleted building in the bush and we heard some noise with our usual way of operation to ascertain those who were there, the people sighting us started to jump out of the windows of the uncompleted building.

So, we were able to penetrate into the building and what we saw was the abandoned voters’ cards. So knowing full well that these are Federal Government property and the only authority empowered or authorised by law to keep custody of these items is INEC, we have to recover them and decided to bring it to the Commission.

Okop Umobong who received the voters’ card on behalf of the Resident Electoral Commission, Dr Alex Hart, INEC Administrative Secretary, said the Commission will investigate the circumstances that led to the cards being found in the forest.