An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the purported recovery of a bag containing Permanent Voter Cards belonging to the Independent National Electoral Commission has been ordered, according to the Anambra State Police Command.
On Tuesday, a hunter who wishes to remain anonymous discovered a bag of PVCs in a forest near the Akamili community in Nnewi, Anambra State, and later brought the bag to the Authority FM studios.
The radio station’s manager, Mr. Charles Ede, who spoke to journalists, claimed to have been off duty when the cards were brought but that his staff had informed him of the event.
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He said, “I was off duty when the incident happened, but one of the staff members received the hunter when he came.”
A video of the PVCs, which was made in the compound of the radio house in Nnewi, and which has been trending online, showed that most of the PVCs belonged to people of the area.
The radio station’s employee, who ran a short commentary on the video, urged those who had yet to get their PVCs to come to the premises of the FM to check if they could find theirs.
It was also gathered that most of the PVCs were owned by people from the Nnewi South Local Government Area.
An employee of Authority FM, who identified himself as Ikenna, confirmed that he received the PVCs, and that they had all been taken to the Obi of Umudim community in Nnewi.
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But reacting to the development, the state police spokesman, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, said the command had not received any such complaint.
Ikenga said, “The command has not received any such complaint from the concerned authority, following the emergence of a video claiming that a hunter found some PVCs in a forest at Nnewi.
“Given the above, the Commissioner of Police, CP Echeng Echeng, has ordered investigations into the video to unravel the circumstances surrounding the incident and possibly arrest the suspects behind the act.
“Therefore, the command is constrained to make further comments and any development in this regard shall be communicated.”
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