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Imo Bye-election: INEC staff abducted, forced to thump print – REC

Hundreds of ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Saturday’s Imo by-election for Ngor Okpala State Constituency were, abducted, taken to an unknown destination and were forced to thump print on the ballot papers.
The INEC Imo state Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Professor Chukwuemeka Ezeonu, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the happenings around the bye-election.
The REC warned that those ballot papers from the abducted INEC ad-hoc staff, would not be accepted by the NEC.
According to the Imo REC, “We have received the report of violence of election and disruption of polls on some polling units and attacks on our personnel. So far no casualty has been reported.
“Security men have been up and doing to rescue some of our staff trapped in the violence. We remain grateful to them and pray for them to succeed in the work they are doing.
“We have noticed with great worries an abduction of some of our Ad-hoc staff with the election materials towards the end of the polls.
While the earlier violence started with the snatching of election materials it ended with the abduction of our staff, ballot papers and materials.
Some of our abducted Adhoc staff were blindfolded and taken to an unknown destination where they were compelled to thump print the ballot papers.”
“We wish to reassure the general public that the results manufactured from unknown places will not be collected.
The number of votes cast must be tallied with the number of accredited voters,” REC said.
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SANWO-OLU ASSURES LAGOSIANS OF ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY

Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has assured Lagosians that the State will continue to sustain its enviable status as the fifth largest economy in Africa and also achieve its vision to become Africa’s model megacity as well as a global economic and financial hub that is safe, secure, functional and productive.
Sanwo-Olu gave the assurance at the Year 2022 edition of the Punuka Annual Lecture with the theme:
“Taxation of the Digital Economy: The Challenges and Prospects for the Nigerian Economy”, held recently at Metropolitan Club, Victoria Island.
Governor Sanwo-Olu, represented by the
Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Rabiu Olowo, reaffirmed Lagos State’s commitment to improving the ease of doing business through the development of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) and ensuring overall prosperity for every citizen.
He averred that the Lagos State Government will continuously seek ways of improving revenue generation through a tax system that is modern, efficient and effective, noting that it is in this regard that the present administration considers the lecture timely and relevant.
Sanwo-Olu said the State faces major challenges in taxing income/profit accruing from e-commerce and digital activities as the transactions more often than not transcend borders, while the contracting entities usually do not have a fixed base (tax residence rule) in the State.
Explaining that the trend has made it difficult to trace, track and establish taxing rights over the huge profits made by multinational enterprises and individuals, the Governor said the inability to garner the requisite tax income from such e-commerce businesses is detrimental to revenue collection/generation.
According to him, the emerging trend requires laws to regulate their operations, just as monitoring will also help to establish the economic presence of these entities for tax purposes.
Mr. Governor reiterated that the State is always open to ideas, strategies and ways to effectively and comprehensively improve tax administration processes and procedures in line with emerging trends in the digital economy towards maximising its revenue generation capacity.
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