Allow eligible inmates vote, Senate tells INEC - Punch Newspapers

The Senate has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to allow eligible prison inmates to exercise to vote during elections in the country.

The upper legislative chamber also asked INEC and all relevant agencies to update register of voters, taking into consideration the prison population for the purpose of elections. In a resolution reached by the Senate following a motion sponsored by Senator Abba Moro , the Senate also urged the commission in collaboration with the Nigeria Correctional Service to locate voting centres at Custodial Centres across the country to be used for voting.

The motion was entitled, “The prerogative of prison inmates to vote in general elections in Nigeria: Statutory, inalienable and non-negotiable.” Moro, in his presentation, said, “The Senate notes that certain human rights are inalienable and come naturally with the birth of the individual. One of such rights is that of citizenship. Incarceration, though, is one of the legal grounds of depriving a person or an offender in custody of certain rights, the right of citizenship cannot at any point be taken away.

Them sha dey find how to rig this election for us but we are on guard always.

Is a room for rigging.

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Doesn't sound acceptable to me. Inmates can't participate in elections until they regain their freedom after serving their time. They are behind bars because of lawlessness & are meant to come to terms with what they did wrong before having their full rights as citizens restored.

APC will tell them that of they can vote, they will free them. So at that point they have no choice than to vote for the wrong APC party. Hope you gerrit

I agree 💯 with that but they are other more important things that needed to be done for this country

As an inmate some rights are to be taken from you, franchise is part of it.

Nothing like that.......❌

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