Our sources said the sensitive election materials, which
ought to have arrived in Nigeria earlier in the week, were unsecured at the
premises of the printer! It was learnt that a Nigerian firm named Cemoz
International Limited had been contracted to print some ballot papers
for the 2015 presidential elections.
It appears that, upon getting the contract, Cemoz went
shopping for printers in London to print the ballot papers
and then contracted these other printers to serially number the ballot
papers. Although the ballot papers for the presidential elections for several
southwest states were seen lying around the premises of the printing company in
Essex, a staff at the company, said the firm only had the contract to print some
of the ballot papers for Jigawa State.
A bill of lading showing that Cemoz planned to ship the
ballot papers to Nigeria a few hours before February 14th, the day initially set
aside for the presidential election, was shown. However, INEC subsequently
postponed the election for six weeks.
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