Nigerian Army Parades 11 NYSC Members Over Electoral Fraud In Rivers State

Around 11 individuals from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have been marched by the Nigerian armed force in River State for purportedly submitting different constituent offenses amid a weekend ago's Presidential and National Assembly elections.

They were strutted yesterday by officers of the 6 Division, Nigerian Army, in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers state capital.

The corps members were said to have been captured in a lodge in Gokana Local Government Area of the State filling result sheets for an ideological group amid the decisions.

The representative of the Division, Aminu Illiyasu, while marching the suspects at the 6 Division Headquarters, said primer examinations uncovered that the suspects were moved from the surveying units to a lodging to fix the decisions for an ideological group.

He said things recuperated from the lodging incorporate 34 tickets boxes stacked with vote papers, three card perusers, 10 sacks containing appointive materials and Toyota Hiace transport with enrollment Number Lagos EQ171KRD.

Be that as it may, a corp member  Mr. Ewitimi Jimicoal, who talked for the benefit of different partners, told columnists that they were whisked away under weapon point by certain men and were compelled to fill result sheets by the political hooligans.

As for  him,

"On Saturday after the Presidential and National Assembly elections, we heard sporadic discharges at the surveying units and promptly, some young men and some network men constrained us into a transport and drove us to an obscure area.

"Directly there at the spot, the young men constrained us to fashion the outcome for an ideological group at gunpoint and out of dread we did as such, and keeping in mind that we were as yet encompassed with weapons, the military came and captured us".

Additionally, strutted was a moderately aged man, Gogo Meshach, and 42 others, including authorities of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) who were captured with 142 Permanent Voters Card (PVC), and 42 pages of voters list.

The suspects have been given over to the State Police Command for further examinations and conceivable indictment.

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