The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that 30 of its staff earlier declared missing in some poling units during the Kogi State governorship election have been found alive.
Rotimi Lawrence Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this yesterday in Abuja.
According to him, none of the 30 missing staff was injured and that they were back in their respective homes.
“We can now confirm that all the 30 ad-hoc staff engaged for the 2019 Kogi governorship election and posted to polling units 002, 006 and 013 at Olamaboro III; and polling units 006, 012, 015, 016, 022 at Imani 1 all in Olamaboro Local Government Area have been accounted for.
“They are safe, sound and back in their respective homes. The chairman of the commission has personally spoken with some of them and they confirmed that they are hale and hearty.
“These election-day duty staff could not be accounted for initially following the violent attacks by some armed thugs at their respective duty posts after the close of polls,” Oyekanmi said.
He said the commission had established that none of them was either injured or killed and that they were all able to successfully conclude the result collation process before the commotion started.
