The Local Government Collation Officer taking care of Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, Dr. Joseph Folorunso, has come out to state that some member of the National Youth Service Corps that took part in elections in the state found it difficult to operate the card readers during the voting exercise.
He said elections in some polling units did not go according to plan as some of them failed to operate the smart card reader despite the massive training they were subjected to before the rescheduled election date.
His words, “Some of them messed up the elections because they could not operate the card readers. A senior officer approached one of them and said ‘upon all I taught you, show me how to operate this card reader.’
“You would be shocked that a corps member who claimed she attended the training could not operate the card reader. Under that disguise, they didn’t use the card readers.”
“It was very disheartening for some of us possibly because we work in the academic environment. These are people who make it look like our graduates are unemployable, but it is not so.
It’s just that when they were training them, some of them were lackadaisical, pressing their phones, talking to their boyfriends or girlfriends as if anyhow they must recruit them.”
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