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Three officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have died in a road accident in Borno State.
INEC Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, confirmed the incident on Monday, adding that the victims were travelling on Sunday before they met their untimely death.
He also disclosed that five other officials of the commission were also injured in the auto crash that occurred in the north-eastern state, noting that the injured were receiving treatment at a Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri.
“The Commission has received the sad report of a fatal road accident involving a number of its staff serving in Borno State,” he said.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed the death of three of its staff in a road accident in Borno.
The INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye, made the confirmation in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja.
Okoye said that the commission on Sunday received a sad report from Mohammed Ibrahim, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for the State, of a fatal road accident involving a number of its members of staff serving in the State.
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Three staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission on an official assignment in Borno State died in a fatal road accident on Sunday. x
“On Sunday 18th April 2021, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for the State, Mohammed Magaji Ibrahim, informed the Commission that an Electoral Officer (EO) and some Assistant Electoral Officers (AEOs) travelling from some Local Government Areas to Maiduguri for a special training ahead of the conversion of Voting Points into Polling Units were involved in the accident,” INEC spokesman Festus Okoye said in a statement on Monday.
“Unfortunately, three staff: Adamu Mohammed (EO, Biu LGA), Abubakar Hamma Joda and Suleiman Umar (AEOs, Damboa LGA) lost their lives while five others sustained injuries.”