2019 POLLS: How the academia failed Nigerians – Lamle vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Dr. Elias Lamle is a lecturer with the Centre for Conflict and Peace Management Studies, University of Jos. He actively participated in the recently held 2019 general elections as a returning officer. In this interview, he narrated his experiences and chided the role played by the academia in the exercise.I am a lecturer with the Centre for Conflict and Peace Management Studies, University of Jos.
I have done electronic voting while in Belgium because I have my green card so I was allowed to vote. Electronic voting is very simple, all they need to do is to put all the various Wards on the net and at the time of voting the State declares free air so you can go on the net. You go to the local government and click, go to the Ward and click, then polling unit and then you vote. For example, in Belgium we started voting from 8 am and by 12 noon results were already announced; very simple.
Here in Nigeria, electronic voting could save us a lot. It is possible for Nigeria to go for electronic voting; it is very much easier for us and hard to rig. ”I am in for electronic voting even if this one can be cancelled and we re-do the elections through electronic voting I will be glad. Because one day you will wake up and discover that there are two states and whenever you have two governments of course you know that anarchy has walked its way into the society.
In the process, I cried for the academia because we are supposed to be the people that should lead others but what we have become sycophants. We dropped ourselves and became just paid and sold out people! I asked them in my department what right we have to judge our students when they fail.
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