The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday said it has earmarked N1.4 billion naira for the purchase of ballot boxes needed in the conduct 2019 General Elections.
INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmud Yakubu, said this in Abuja during the 2016 budget defence session before members of the House of Representative Committee on Electoral Matters and Political Parties Affairs.
Yakubu said that the Commission intended to replace the transparent ballot boxes with plastic ones.
According to the INEC boss, the transparent ballot boxes would not be used in the 2019 General Elections.
Yakubu, however, said that as much as the Commission was willing to patronise locally-made products, it is confronted with the inability of local manufacturers to deliver the required volume within the stipulated short timeframe for elections.
“Sometimes, it is easier said that we have manufacturers who have the capacity but when you engage them you realise that we may not have such capacity for volumes and this not only peculiar to elections.
“Immediately you try to produce something locally, somebody rushes to register a patent and claims ownership of that idea. Right now, we have litigations running into trillions of people who said the patent for smart card reader is theirs.
“And they will get some favourable judgement that we should pay them some fantastic amount.
“So, while it is important for us to encourage our domestic producers, we are also careful about that particularly because some of the procurement items are time-bound”, he added.
Tuesday, 14 February 2017
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