Voter data leak: Police arrest INEC officer, quiz Wike’s aide
Senior Police sources has confirmed that operatives of the Force Intelligence Department Intelligence Response Team, IRT, have commenced investigations into the unauthorised database abuse and the leaking of classified national document belonging to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Towards this end, an official of INEC has been arrested while a top aide of the FCT Minister is said to have been interrogated by the operatives over the leaked document. Sources told Vanguard that IRT operatives have detained the INEC official, who is seconded to the Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, while investigations is ongoing. The aide of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT minister, was said to have been invited to the Guzape headquarters of the IRT while it was confirmed that the petition written to the Police on the matter emanated from INEC headquarters. The petition alleged criminal conspiracy, leaking of classified documents and conduct capable of breaching public peace amon...