Inadequacy of ad-hoc staff is threatening to mar the success of the on-going continuous voter’s registration exercise in some parts of Portharcourt, TPCN investigation reveals.
INEC have not been able to duly register crowds who turn out daily for the exercise in various centers visited by our reporters in Portharcourt because of fewer numbers of staff attending to those who have turned out to be registered.
Some who have been frustrated with the slow pace of the registration, especially the civil servants, chided INEC for its inability to speed up the process, saying that thousands if not millions, of people might be disfranchised from voting in the next general elections if nothing is done to solve the problem.
Although INEC have said that the continuous voter’s registration exercise will last till the end of the year with the commission hoping to register about 80 million Nigerians who are eligible to vote before the end of the exercise, it is facing shortage of manpower in that regard, a situation that might mar the realization of the mark the commission have set.
Hitches due to staff inadequacy might hamper the entire process as it takes longer than a week to get people registered.
Some of the people who spoke to TPCN expressed outrage at the commission, saying that the commission should employ the services of youth corpers to effectively manage the process and register the number of people who turn out for the exercise daily.
According to them, they have been coming to the centers for days, standing in queues under the sun and have not been successful in their quest to be registered and berated the commission for its lack of preparedness towards the exercise.
