Fire outbreak Raised Down INEC office in Imo

Earlier today at about 1.30am the INEC office in Nwaorubi in Mbaitoli LGA of Imo State was raised down by. Speaking on the incident, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Gabriel Ada, said all the sensitive and insensitive materials kept in the building were destroyed in the fire. He also said that the fire might be due to an electric spark from a generating set.

Although the fire did not destroy the card readers meant for next Saturday's governorship election, the fire incident might cause a little hitch during the governorship elections which is to hold next Saturday April 11th he said. However he promised that the agency would do everything possible to ensure that all materials, sensitive and non-sensitive, needed for the governorship election is replaced.

4/05/2015