The Electoral Commission has warned against the practice of ‘guarantor contractors’ at some registration Centres in the ongoing voters registration exercise.
According to the EC in a statement, its attention has been drawn to a development at some some registration Centres where certain people are acting as ‘guarantor contractors.’
The Commission says “such an act illegal in the Constitutional Instrument (CI) 91.
It has therefore cautioned that the officials of the Commission will not hesitate to hand over such persons to the security agencies to face the law.
The CI 91 states that a registered voter who
Is the applicant’s parent, sibling, spouse, guardian and other are the only persons who can serve as a guarantor.
It specified that an applicant must be well known to the guarantor and that any thing contrary to that constitutes an electoral offense punishable by law.
According to the CI 91, it is an offense to make an entry of statement which that person knows to be false or does not believe to be true for the purpose of registering a voter.
By Melvin Tarlue