The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Saturday that one of its staffers kidnapped during the legislative elections in Etche had been released.
Mrs May Agbamuche-Mbu, the South South National Electoral Commissioner in charge of Edo, Bayelsa and Rivers, made this known while speaking to newsmen in Etche after monitoring the election.
She said the staffer was attacked and kidnapped while on the way to supply election materials to some polling centres.
Agbamuche-Mbu added that some members of staff attacked and injured during the election had been taken to the hospital.
She decried the increasing incidence of election violence in Rivers.
“Thankfully they have been released; some were injured and we will take care of them, and it has happened again and again (elections) yet Rivers state is boiling.
“We have decided that…
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