LAGOS APRIL 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State Labour Party (LP) have purchased CCTV cameras ahead of the Governorship and the State House of Assembly election which is due to hold on Saturday 11th April, 2015.
URHOBOTODAY an online medium gathered that a group under the aegis of The Diaspora Deltans for Ogboru (DDO) in partnership with The Campaign Against Political Correctness, a Non-Governmental Organization purchased 3,500 sets of Mini CCTV cameras from Henry’s Electronics Limited to be installed at various polling units in Delta State to help fight against electoral fraud.
Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru is the Labour Party Governorship candidate in the state. He previously contested the governorship election three times, and adjudged to have won all three times against his opponents
It was alleged that Campaign Against Political Correctness funded the purchase of various types of IP cameras, which include sets of CMOS colour Camera (Model LE-19), Bullet Camera (Model : TED-NT-36M70-I53), Dome Camera (Model : TED-NT-70D-I50), COLOUR MINI CCTV CAMERAS (All 12V DC), COLOUR BODY CCTV CAMERAS (All 12v DC), OUTDOOR IR CAMERAS (All 12V DC), IP Network CCTV CAMERAS (All ONVIP) & ACCESSORIES.
The Cameras, according to our source within the Delta Labour Party caucus, were mounted by Datapoint Microsystems Limited at various polling stations across the state after the March 28th Presidential elections and are being monitored from various secret situation controlled rooms in the heart of Warri and in various Local Government Areas of Delta State.
He revealed that the cameras would assist in checkmating ghost votes and electoral malpractice which had bedevilled Delta State election ever since.
“We are in the days of technology, where we can use technology to fight criminal act. In the western world, CCTV cameras help a lot in fighting crime and in our case will help fight electoral malpractices. Our Agents cannot do it all by human factors, so with these Cameras, we shall be able to monitor each polling units for the malpractices going on and have video clips of such activities so that the authority can have someone to punish for any malpractice or misconduct on the parts of INEC adhoc staff, REC, Returning and presiding officers and the Nigeria security agencies. We have been through such activities in the past and also in the last Presidential election, which was held recently, on March 28th 2015.
“We all saw the malpractices. With these cameras in place, I believe it will help a lot. I would welcome other political parties or their candidates to also take this as a challenge to help stop electoral fraud in Nigeria. We all want free and fair elections, where the votes of the people shall count and have value.
“The cameras have already been mounted in hidden locations of various polling centres across the state. We were able to visit one of the secret situation rooms of the Labour Party in Warri city, Delta state, where various polling stations were monitored by wide LCD screens and computers and Mobile phones. This is a welcome development for Nigeria democracy to help fight electoral fraud,” Our source noted.
The governorship election is set to be held in the 25 Local governments of the state, which shall commence by 8:00am on the 11th of April, 2015. Card readers shall be used as mandated by the Independence National Electoral Commission (INEC). The commission also mandates that wherever they should be failure of the card reader’s machine, the election shall be postpone to the following day.