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Democracy advocacy group, Centre For Transparency Advocacy (CTA) has urged security agencies to closely monitor food vendors and some other means through which politicians and their agents pay voters ahead of Saturday’s presidential/National Assembly election.
It also charged the police to repay the decision by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to directly pay their duty allowances to their individual accounts with good conduct and display of professionalism during the election.
Speaking during the opening of its Situation Room in Abuja, CTA acting Executive Director, Faith Nwadishi, said vote-buying remains a key challenge facing the election. She contended that some people now disguise as food vendors when in the actual sense they are positioned by politicians to pay voters, describing the situation as worrisome.
Nwadishi pleaded with security agencies to double their efforts to ensure that such act did not take place.
She praised INEC for choosing to discontinue the old practice where police men on election duties were not paid their allowances because the money was given to their supervisors. She claimed that the decision to directly pay such allowances into the individual bank accounts of security agents on election duty would make them to perform professionally.
The CTA boss flayed the conduct of some political parties and politicians accusing them of inflaming passion through their unguarded utterances.
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