Prof. Mahmud
Yakub, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
told the Senate Committee on INEC yesterday that the
commission would recruit
about one million ad hoc members of staff for the conduct of the 2019 general
elections.
According to
him, the ad hoc workers to be deployed for the polls, which will begin in 484
days, will be about 300k higher than the 700k engaged for the 2015 general
elections.
He said,
“The projected increase in the number of ad hoc (members of ) staff to be
engaged in the elections by the commission arose from the need to make
provisions for adequate manpower for the exercise on a general template and,
specifically, to take care of peculiar needs for that purpose in some polling
units across the federation.”
The INEC
boss, at the interactive session with the lawmakers, also disclosed that the
commission was planning to make the five categories of disfranchised Nigerians
participate in the 2019 general elections. The five categories, according to
him, are the 16,000 INEC personnel, members of the civil society organisations
who serve as election monitors and observers, the media, security personnel and
prison inmates. Yakub assured Nigerians that the smart card readers to be
deployed for the polls would function efficiently as users would be adequately
trained on its usage before the election.
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