Reason INEC Should Allow Eligible Prisoners To Vote During Elections – Senate
The Senate has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission to allow duly registered and eligible prison-electorate to exercise their franchise during general elections in Nigeria. PM NEWS reports.
This was even as it called on the Electoral body to determine the status of the inmates that are constitutionally and legally qualified to be registered as eligible voters and should vote at elections. Information Guide Nigeria
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It further called on INEC and all relevant agencies to update register of voters to take into account the prison population for the purpose of elections.
The Senate also urged the Commission (INEC) in collaboration with the Nigeria Correctional Service to locate Voting Centres at Custodial Centres across the country to be used for voting.
These were resolutions reached by the Senate following a motion sponsored by Senator Patrick Abba Moro (Benue South). jamb results
The motion was entitled, “The prerogative of Prison Inmates to vote in general elections in Nigeria: statutory, Inalienable and non-negotiable.”
Senator Abba Moro, in his presentation, said, “The Senate Notes that certain human rights are inalienable and come naturally with the birth of the individual. One of such rights is that of citizenship. Incarceration though is one of the legal grounds of depriving a person or an offender in custody of certain rights, the right of citizenship cannot at any point be taken away;
