CLEEN Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) has called on the National Assembly to do more in legislating against vote trading as it is a serious electoral fraud with special punitive for persons in electoral violence .
The Chairman , Board of Directors of CLEEN foundation, Prof Etannibi Alemika at a release of the 2019 General Election report held in Abuja on Wednesday, said all electoral offenders at the just concluded 2019 general elections should be brought to book including security personnel as this will serve as a deterrent to potential electoral offenders in the future elections.
Prof Alemika also recommended that oversight agencies should enforce their mandate in the arears of discipline of security actors for professional misconducts on election duties .
He also called for timely and adequate preparations and coordination of all security agencies involved in election security is fundamental for the successful conduct of violence free elections.
Also, the Executive Director of CLEEN foundation , Dr Benson Olugbuo expressed worry over the election violence witnessed at the just concluded 2019 election, calling on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to improve in the process of collection of the permanent voters’ card (PVC) to reduce to the barest minimum the challenges encountered in the collection of same in the build up to the 2019 general elections .
He said INEC should commence early planning and training of its staff and as-hoc staff adding that presiding officers should trained on the use of the SCRs ahead of the elections .
He also said INEC should revise the code of conduct for political parties and place greater emphasis on punishment for political parties involved in vote buying.
