2023: Thugs set INEC office ablaze

INEC Chairman, Yabubu Mahmould

Some suspected thugs, in the early hours of Thursday, burnt an office of the <a href="http&colon;//Openlife&period;ng">Independent National Electoral Commission</a> at Iyana Mortuary lll in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital &period;&NewLine;The thugs numbering about eight reportedly scaled the perimeter fence, jumped into the premises and set the INEC building on fire from the back&period;&NewLine;It was gathered that the hoodlums after invading the premises, soaked loaves of bread with petrol and threw same into the building at different angles to light up the INEC office&period;&NewLine;It was further gathered that a security guard at the facility identified as Azeez Hamzat, had made a distress call to the police around 1am alerting them on the fire incident&period;&NewLine;The police from Ibara division reportedly mobilised detectives to the scene and later contacted men of fire service in the state , who raced to the scene to put out the fire&period;&NewLine;When contacted, the Ogun INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Niyi Ijalaye confirmed the incident, describing it as shocking&period;&NewLine;<h2><a href="https&colon;//openlife&period;ng/2023-court-sacks-labour-party-governorship-candidate-photo/">Court Sacks Labour Party Governorship Candidate </a></h2>&NewLine;The REC said the situation was still being assessed&period;&NewLine;He said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is correct that our office was set on fire&period; The police are investigating&period; I do not know what to say&period; I’m in shock myself&period;&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We called the police and other security agencies at night&period; The fire brigade put the situation under control&period; The level of damage is still being assessed&period;&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is very shocking and untoward&period; The security agencies are doing their very best&period; We are meeting again later today to come up with other strategies (toward securing our facilities)&period;”&NewLine;&nbsp&semi;&NewLine;

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