Police arrest corps member, 12 others over alleged electoral offences

Thirteen persons, including six women and a member of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, working with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were  Tuesday arrested by the police in Lagos State, during the Governorship and House of Assembly Elections in the State, for allegedly attempting to hijack ballot boxes, disrupt electoral processes  and tomb-printing of ballots papers. One of the incidents which took at Epe area of the state occurred around 2: pm when the voting exercise just began.
Four armed men, operating on a motorbike bike, allegedly stormed polling unit 54, at Ward 4 in Epe, and attempted snatching ballot boxes and disrupt electoral processes  in the area.
They were said to have   shot  several rounds of knockouts at a spot close to a polling unit  along Itire road in Mushin.
Policemen from the Area ‘C’ Command  who were at the scene and were said to have arrested the suspects.  Meanwhile a 21- year- old member of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC,  working for INEC was arrested by the police, for allegedly tomb-printing on ballots papers in one of the polling units Kirikrir Town.
The suspect was later transferred to the State to the State Criminal Investigations Department Panti Yaba for proper investigations.
Meanwhile, the State Commissioner of police Suleiman Abba, while briefing the newsmen at the end of the elections, he dispelled rumors of an arrested vehicle,  marked with diplomatic plate number and was said to be   conveying tomb-printed ballots papers into Lagos Island.
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