The House of Representative Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has called on the electoral body to move its offices out of local government areas across the country. The House resolution followed a motion by Hon. Sunday Nnamchi , who noted that situating INEC offices out of council areas to neutral ground would help to protect the integrity of the electoral process.
Nnamchi’s motion was referred to the Committee on INEC. During a public hearing at the National Assembly Complex, the committee’s chairman, Adebayo Balogun, explained that INEC needed to locate its offices on neutral ground. “There must be a communication between either INEC or the committee, through members or through the state governors to provide land.
Because you have to put this on the front burner. If people are talking about it, it will happen. Because yes, I know Mr.
Chairman is a very conservative person when it comes to issues like this, but we need to talk. “People will only listen to you when you talk and the pressure is on the ground. There is so much demand from every department and every ministry.
Sometimes it is when they hear you that action is being taken and I think with this motion, I want to use the opportunity to thank the mover of this motion because I never knew we had this kind of situation until this motion came. Even in Lagos, I never knew we had this situation in Lagos. I mean, Alimosho, Apapa, Oshodi and Eti Osa.
And I think we should be able to solve.
