Hoodlums burn INEC office in Ebonyi, destroy PVCs, ballot boxes

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that destroyed valuable items including ballot boxes, voting cubicles and power generating sets during an attack on its office in Izzi Local Government Area (LGA), Ebonyi State.
INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, in a statement in Abuja, disclosed that the state INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mrs Onyeka Pauline Ugochi, reported that the office was set ablaze on Sunday morning by some unidentified attackers at about 10.00a.m.
the commissioner highlighted: “Although no casualties resulted from the attack, the main building and all the movable and immovable items inside it were destroyed.
“These include 340 ballot boxes, 130 voting cubicles, 14 electric power generators, large water storage tanks, assorted office furniture and fixtures and yet to be determined quantities of Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs).”
Okoye said that the attention of the police and other security agencies have been drawn to the incident and investigation commenced.
“Sadly, this is the third attack on our LGA office in less than three weeks following similar attacks on our offices in Ogun and Osun on Nov. 10,” Okoye said.