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- Pix(above|): EFCC operatives in action
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed the arrest of 65 persons in 28 states in Saturday, March 18 gubernatorial/state assembly polls over alleged voter inducement, vote buying and sundry financial crimes.
Revealing this in a statement, the commission’s spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujiaren, said that 20 of the suspects were arrested in Kwara, while 13 were arrested in Kaduna State.
Uwujiaren added that 12 suspects were, additionally, arrested in Rivers; four, each in Akwa Ibom and Cross River, while others were arrested in Gombe, Sokoto, Kebbi and Niger states.
“Those arrested in Kaduna State were 10 males and three females. They were apprehended by EFCC operatives either working on intelligence reports or were chanced upon during monitoring.
“A suspect allegedly involved in vote buying was nabbed at School Road, Unguwan Rimi in Kaduna. The suspect, who initially resisted arrest, is however in custody pending the conclusion of investigation.
“Also in Kaduna, a team arrested a suspect with voter coupons, which he confessed would be used to trace and pay those who voted for his party,” Uwujiaren further stated, adding that the EFCC team monitoring voting exercise around Local Education Authority School, Kabala Doki in Kaduna also arrested two suspects for vote buying.
He noted that upon arrest, N67,500, a list containing names of voters, their PVC numbers and bank accounts details were recovered from the suspects.
Going further, the EFCC spokesman stated that investigation showed that the major modus operandi of the suspects was to give cash, transfer money, coupons or send recharge cards to eligible voters to induce them.
He said that a search on their persons and phones showed that most of them had transferred money into bank accounts of some voters on the lists recovered from them./SHARE THIS
