Niger: Court remands three persons for snatching BVAS

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A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting at the High Court Complex, Minna, has remanded three persons in a correctional facility for being in possession of ballot papers, result form and snatching of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAs) machines. The accused were arrested by the Police in Agaie Divisional Command for being in possession of the electoral materials used in the conduct of the March 18, governorship and State House Assembly elections in Agaie town.

A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting at the High Court Complex, Minna, has remanded three persons in a correctional facility for being in possession of ballot papers, result form and snatching of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines.A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting at the High Court Complex, Minna, has remanded three persons in a correctional facility for being in possession of ballot papers, result form and snatching of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines.

The suspects: Usman Aliyu, Mohammed Mohammed and Salihu Mohammed were arraigned on a four-count charge bordering on criminal conspiracy, being in possession of ballot papers, snatching of BVAs N0:26.01.10.001 and other election materials, as well as failure to give information to the police. When the charges were read to the suspects, they all pleaded not guilty and the police prosecutor, Inspector Emmanuel Bassa, requested for adjournment to enable police complete the investigation and arrest those on the run.

Meanwhile, the Police First Information Report , marked MN/CR/20/2023 filed in the court, read: “On March 18, 2023, during the collation of results for the governorship and House of Assembly elections at Bugana polling unit, Magaji Ward of Agaie, some thugs invaded the polling unit, behaved in a disorderly manner, threatened the Independent Electoral Commission officials and snatched the BVAs machine No: 26.01.10.001 and other election materials.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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Story for the gods, why not arrest who sent them.... Stupid country.... Court my foot

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