Thugs Disrupt INEC Training In Imo State

Thugs Disrupt INEC Training In Imo State

On Friday, suspected political thugs disrupted the Independent
National Electoral Commission’s training programme going on in Imo
State.

According to reports, the training was for INEC’s ad hoc staff for
the February 16 and March 2 elections. The training which was going on
at Dikenafai Technical School in the Ideato South Local Government Area
of the state was disrupted by the thugs who were armed with weapons.

One of the trainees who identified himself as Justice told our
correspondent that the thugs jumped into the hall midway into the
training session and chased everybody away, including the instructors
and made away with the equipment.

He said, “while the training programme was going on some boys
jumped in and ordered everybody to leave. Before we could say a
word,they had started chasing us out of the hall. They had to take the
equipment including the megaphone. Nobody wants to die because of ad hoc
staff job. We had to immediately run away. That was how the training
ended arbitrarily. We don’t know how a training program by INEC should
pose a treat to people.”

The INEC Public Relations Officer in the state, Emmanuel Opara, could
not categorically state if the disrupted training program would be
rescheduled. The spokesperson said that she would reach out to the
commission’s Returning Officer in the Ideato