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| Jega: Risks prison committal |
A court in Abuja has ordered the Chairman of the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, to show cause why he
should not be committed to prison for disobeying its order barring the use of
the procured collapsible transparent ballot boxes for the conduct of last
Saturday’s Edo State governorship elections.
Justice Adamu Bello of the Federal High Court issued a ‘Form
49’ against Jega INEC and the Registrar of Patent, Federal Ministry of Commerce
and Trade.
The court had made an order barring the deployment of the
procured transparent ballot boxes for the poll without seeking the consent of
the patent owner to the boxes.
It declared as illegal the use of the collapsible
transparent ballot boxes used for the 2011 general elections by INEC without
the consent of the patent owner.
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