Electoral offences Bill: Snatch, destroy ballot boxes, papers, get 20 years jail term — Senate
•15 years for opening a ballot box without authorization •10 years for selling, holding voter’s card not bearing your name •10 years or N20 million fine or both for using hate speech By Our Reporters, with Vanguard Report A STIFF punishment awaits election riggers and their collaborators including security agents, if President Muhammadu Buhari signs into law the National Electoral Offences Commission Bill, which the Senate passed, yesterday. Also, if the punishment is fully implemented, it will serve as a deterrent to all election riggers and checkmate excess of election malpractices in the country. The Bill for the establishment of the National Electoral Offences Commission empowers the commission to sentence or convict a candidate, any person or agent who destroys or snatches a ballot box or papers during election to 20 years imprisonment. According to the bill, which was read the third time and passed, the Commission will ensure that no candidate, his agent or any other ...