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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has vowed to take the alleged cloning and sale of Permanent Voter Cards on an e-commerce web site severely.
Recall that a Twitter consumer had raised the alarm over the weekend on the gross sales of the PVC, drawing the eye of INEC.
The commercial reveals images of clean playing cards, which haven't been personalised.
Not to be an alarmist, please I discovered a submit saying our PVCs can be found on Chinese websites…so I went on https://t.co/YkaGkZolB2 myself & confirmed this.
I'm solely attempting to know if this ought to be potential, what @inecnigeria plans to do about this & if govt is aware of about it. pic.twitter.com/rqjpAH6wW4
— SAGE. (@olufisiayomi) July 1, 2018
However, a assertion by the electoral physique, assured that PVCs contained a number of security measures and secret source codes which allow them to learn solely PVCs duly issued by the Commission.
As said by INEC,“it takes the reports seriously and will engage the government and security agencies as well as promoters of the platform in order to get to the root of it and take all necessary action to bring down the advertisement forthwith.”
The submit on the e-commerce web site has been nevertheless eliminated as on the time of penning this report.