How NCC misled lawmakers, Nigerians on electronic transmission of results
, the National Assembly believes that INEC does not have the capacity to do it on its own, a development that has startled officials at the electoral commission, this newspaper learnt.
INEC, however, publicly faulted the claim that electronic transmission of results was not realisable due to poor network coverage across the country.In what he described as a “blatant lie” during African Independent Television breakfast programme Kakaaki, INEC’s director of publicity and voter education, Nick Dazang, faulted the claims by the NCC officials.
The two documents seen by this newspaper detailed the minutes of the meetings INEC held in 2018 with the NCC and the telecoms. The meeting birthed a joint technical committee, delegates of which were drawn from both teams and whose mandate was to “map out strategies that will reduce human interventions in the transmission of election results” while also ensuring quality electoral service delivery.
This would require all operators to configure “one Access Point Name and Virtual Private Network towards the INEC platform to enhance security,” one of the documents read. “The Subscriber Identity Module cards to be used by INEC’s Card Readers should be customized to carry unique security features and functionalities.”
After the meeting, the consensus reached by all the operators was that “the requirements for the ETR proposed by INEC is practicable.”
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