The Anambra State Police Command on Wednesday ordered an investigation to unravel the circumstances behind the discovery of a bag full of Permanent Voter Cards in a forest in Akamili community, Nnewi, Anambra State.
A yet-to-be-identified hunter found the bag in the forest and subsequently took it to the premises of a radio station, Authority FM.
A worker at the station, who identified himself simply as Ikenna, said he received the PVCs, adding that the PVCs were taken to the Obi of Umudim community in Nnewi.
The station manager, Charles Ede, who said he was not on duty when the hunter brought the cards, told journalists that he confirmed the development from a worker at the station.
Ede said, “I was off duty when the incident happened but one of the staff members received the hunter when he came.”
In a trending video, our correspondent gathered that people, while assessing the bag containing the PVCs, discovered that it belonged to people in the locality.
Another worker at the radio station, while commenting on the bag, urged people who were yet to collect their PVCs to visit the station to check if they can find their PVCs so they can vote in the general election scheduled to commence on Saturday.
Efforts to reach the spokesperson for the INEC in Anambra State, Dr Kingsley, for a reaction about how the PVCs got to the area proved abortive as he did not take nor respond to a text message sent to his telephone line.
Reacting, the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, said the command was yet to get an official complaint on the development.
Ikenga said, “The command has not received any such complaint from the concerned authority following the emergence of a video claiming that a hunter found some PVCs in a forest at Nnewi.
“Given the above, the state Commissioner of Police, Echeng Echeng, has ordered an investigation into the video to unravel the circumstances surrounding the incident and possibly arrest the suspects behind the act.”
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