The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has launched an investigation into the viral video of a woman seen allegedly collecting from money from people who came to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) at Enugu East Local Government Area.
Head, Department of Voter Education and Publicity in the Enugu State branch of INEC, Mr. Rex Achumie, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday.
The video shows a woman extorting N1,000 each from registrants who wanted to collect their PVCs.
She said in the video that the N1,000 was to cover her transport fare and other stress she went through to get the cards to a primary school in a neighbourhood, in the local government area.
Achumie, however, said the woman in question is not a staff or ad-hoc staff of INEC.
According to him, none of the persons in the video is INEC employee.
“INEC wants to unravel how the cards got into the hands of the unscrupulous woman in the first place.
“We are looking at getting the Electoral Officer in charge of the area to liaise with his staff to know who actually gave the woman the cards,” he said.
Achumie assured that INEC would get a clearer picture of the whole episode by Tuesday, as well as “where and who the woman in question is working for.’’
– NAN