By Victor Madu
National Youth Corps members, who worked as Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Adhoc staff within Oshodi-Isolo Local Council in Lagos State, have decried poor treatment meted to them by INEC officials before and after the Presidential and National Assembly election.
Corps members who worked as Presiding Officers (PO), within the axis of Oshodi during the election process, said that their welfare expectations prior to the elections were not met, rather they were treated poorly throughout the entire exercise.
The Guardian gathered that some Corps members and none corpers who worked as INEC Adhoc staff in Orile Oshodi had to sleep at their Residential Area Centres (RAC) for three days due to improper organisation by those manning the electoral process.
“We came to our RAC very late on Friday after our names were officially released that night at the Local Council. Since then, some of us had to stay at our RAC till yesterday morning due to poor organisation by those in charge. Some of us didn’t have access to food and water to bathe, even after the election exercise on Saturday, we were left in a state of confusion and disorderliness at the RAC,” said a Corps member.
Similarly, Adhoc staff in some polling units in Orile Oshodi, particularly parts of Mafoluku, Oke-Ofa and Okota areas decried the threat to their lives at the polling units by armed political thugs.
The Guardian also learnt that ballot papers and boxes were burnt to ashes in Mafoluku axis by political thugs, who snatched ballot boxes in other areas within Orile in Oshodi of the council.
Source: The Guardian
