Six Temporary Voters Cards (TVCs), which were reportedly discovered in a state forest by hunters, have been received by the Bayelsa Independent National Electoral Commission together with 315 Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs).
The Nigerian Hunters and Forest Security Service have been thanked by the Administrative Secretary of the Commission, Engr. Okop Umobong, who was representing the Bayelsa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, for recovering several voters’ cards from the bush and for keeping the neighbourhood secure.
Umobong promised that he would give the cards to Dr Alex Hart, the Resident Electoral Commissioner and that the Commission would look into the circumstances surrounding their discovery in the bush.
He said that the probe would reveal if the PVCs were discarded after production or belonged to actual voters.
Moses Okanu, the Bayelsa State Commandant of the Nigerian Hunters and Forest Security Service, claimed the 320 voters cards were discovered in an uncompleted building in the forest along Elebele-AIT Road when he presented them to the Umobong.
Okanu stated that when some hoodlums saw his command’s men searching the bushes during a regular operation, they took to their heels and left behind the voters cards.
He said, “In our routine patrol, I led the operation yesterday. We have been combing the bushes in the nooks and crannies because of the happening we have been hearing in the bushes. We started from Azikoro and went through Elebele.”