Sanitising the Electoral Space With Diligent Prosecution of Offenders PremiumTimesng: Nigeria
Apparently, the absence of laws to deal squarely with the conundrum is not the issue, but the lack of political will by the state or its institutions to carry out prosecutions effectively.ach electoral cycle throws up its poignant concerns, which the Nigerian state tries, or fails, to grapple with. The just concluded 2023 general elections did not depart from this trajectory.
Abuses committed by these suspects fall under about 62 offences in the Electoral Act, with specific sanctions, ranging from fines of N500,000 to N50 million, alongside six-month to 10-year jail terms, depending on the degrees of offence committed.
In more civilised societies, an election is a civic engagement, whereby people freely exercise their franchise in choosing those to represent or lead them. It is certainly not warfare. Sadly, self-seeking and accessing the privileges of public office have supplanted the higher ideal of providing service to the people.
One of those killed in the 18 March polls was Chiosom Lennard, the only child of his parents, who served as a polling official in one of the units at Ubeta Community Primary School, in Rivers State. He was billed to defend his PhD thesis on 23 March at Rivers State University, Port Harcourt.
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