‘Capture your vote on camera, go to jail’, INEC warns Nigerians
.........Bars phones, cameras inside voting cubicles
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared that anyone who enters a voting booth with a photographic device or a phone to record his party preference will be jailed if caught.
Barrister Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman of INEC Voter Education and Publicity Committee, announced this during a Channels Television news program.
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Okoye made it clear that photographic recording or capturing device is not allowed at the voting cubicle.
According to him, “no one will be allowed to take his or her phone to the voting cubicle. It is prohibited.
“Officials of the ICPC, EFCC and security agencies will be on hand to monitor and ensure that the law in that respect is not violated.”