According to reports reaching oyogist.com, the Chairman of EtiOsa East LCDA, Honourable John Campos Ogundare has been accused of disrupting a smooth Voter Sensitisation and Registration exercise which held in Lagos state.
According to eyewitnesses, the Chairman and his boys stormed the venue of the exercise, demanding how they got authorization to carry out such program in his jurisdiction without due permission from him and his boys went ahead to seize the laptops and printers the volunteers were using in helping people who were legible for voter registration to access the internet.
Policemen were later brought in to detain the volunteers, who were released one hour after.
The group, Vote Your Conscience is a volunteer group whose big goal is to support the INEC’s CVR process by providing internet access to enable vulnerable citizens register on INECs e-voters registration website. The team, who were in their second day of activity were quite taken aback by the violent development.The Lead of the group, Chukwuma ‘Chukky’ Ochonogor said he was surprised at the distasteful turn of events and how the LCDA Chairman and his ‘goons’ treated them like intruders. Recounting the ordeal, he said Hon Ogundare and his boys stormed the place creating a lot of noise and threw the printer they were using on the hard floor.“They came and started arguing first, saying how can you do this kind of thing here without informing us. His goons came and threw the printer on the floor.The guys then took the laptops to the police station and policemen came with their guns to arrest the guys doing the registration but they were released one hour later.“It is just surprising. This is supposed to be a non partisan exercise but going to the LCDA Chairman that you know is a member of a political party does not speak well. We started yesterday (Wednesday) and we already have about sixty people registered. They do not have access to the internet or phones and we voulunteered to bridge that gap”, he said
