A civil society organisation, YIAGA Africa, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to provide an update on the status of elections in polling units across Anambra that experienced malfunctioning of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS).
There are glitches on the BVAS in several polling units across the state.
Chukwuma Soludo, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), had earlier lamented that Voting Technology Has Failed .
Reacting to the development, YIAGA Africa, in a statement on Saturday, said: “Yiaga Africa commends the people of Anambra for the enthusiasm and resilience demonstrated with the turnout for the elections,”
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“INEC owes the people of Anambra a duty to take necessary steps to ensure registered voters are not disenfranchised on the basis of technological failures or logistics challenges.
“Yiaga Africa urges INEC to provide periodic updates on the status of elections in polling units where the BVAS consistently malfunctioned or where elections did not hold.”
“Yiaga Africa WTV observed the deployment of the BVAS to the polling units. However, Yiaga Africa received reports of the BVAS failure to authenticate voters’ fingerprints and photos even where voter details were confirmed on the voter register.”
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The CSO further said: “Yiaga Africa lauds the professionalism exhibited by security agencies since the commencement of polls,”
“Yiaga Africa reiterates its call to security agencies to respect human rights and maintain non-partisan dispositions throughout the results collation process.
“Yiaga Africa further calls on the security agencies to investigate reports of hijack of election materials and prosecute the culprits.”
