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INEC’s office in Ebonyi burnt, third in three weeks
The office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State has been set ablaze by hoodlums.
The hoodlums were said to have razed down the building in the early hours of Sunday.
The incident was confirmed by the INEC Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, in a tweet.
The tweet quoted INEC’s Resident Commissioner for Ebonyi State, Mrs Onyeka Pauline Ugochi, as saying the
incident occurred around 10am.
While properties and the building were destroyed, no casualty was recorded.
Some of the properties razed down included 340 ballot boxes, 14 power generators, 130 voting cubicles, large water storage tanks, office furniture and a large number of voter cards which has not been ascertained at the time of the report.
INEC stated that this is the third attack on their facility after the offices in Ogun and Osun states were attacked on the 10th of November 2022.
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