The four members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, and a councillor arrested on 15 January, 2010 for diverting registration materials were on Wednesday docked before the Calabar Chief Magistrate’s court.
The corps members along with two former councillors are accused of diverting registration materials to private homes.
The corps members, Makinwa Michael, Musapha Yahaya, Osha Tolulope and Okoye Chinyere, have been in detention since their arrest.
After they were arraigned, the presiding Chief Magistrate Ashu Ewa granted them bail in the sum of N200,000. Besides, they are to be tried in Odukpani and Akpabuyo, the areas where the alleged offences were committed.
The accused persons who looked disheveled and untidy because of the long period they had been in custody, were taken to the bathroom in the court before they left for their places of primary assignment.
The offence, Mr. Michael Igini, the Resident Electoral Commission for the state, said is punishable under section 117 (1) (i) of the Electoral Act Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The charge reads: “On the 15 January 2011, at Idundu village, Akpabuyo in the Akpabuyo Magisterial District you did carry out registration of voters at Victor Etim Ekanem’s residence, a place not designated by the Independent National Electoral Commission, instead of Idundu Primary School and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 117 (1) (i) of the Electoral Act, Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2011”.
—P.M.News
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