Ballots meant for the Nigerian presidential election were
found yesterday at the premises of a local printer in the Essex area of London.
Our sources said the sensitive election materials, which
ought to have arrived in Nigeria earlier in the week, were unsecured at the
premises of Panther Printing Services in London. SaharaReporters was able to
confirm that a Nigerian firm named Cemoz International Limited had been
contracted to print some ballot papers for the 2015 presidential elections.
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A spokesman for the Independent National Electoral
Commission, Kayode Idowu, confirmed to SaharaReporters that Cemoz International
Limited was one of the firms awarded the contract to print ballot papers.
It appears that, upon getting the contract, Cemoz went
shopping for printers in London to print the ballot papers and then contracted
these other printers to serially number the ballot papers. Although the ballot
papers for the presidential elections for several southwest states were seen
lying around the premises of the printing company in Essex, a staff at the
company, speaking to a correspondent of SaharaReporters, said the firm only had
the contract to print some of the ballot papers for Jigawa State. Thinking that
our correspondent worked for Cemoz, the representative of the Essex-based company
asked if we could give them more jobs, adding that their company had mastered
how to print ballot papers.
SaharaReporters later obtained a bill of lading showing that
Cemoz planned to ship the ballot papers to Nigeria a few hours before February
14th, the day initially sect aside for the presidential election. INEC
subsequently postponed the election for six weeks.
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