In the attack, over 600,000 permanent voters’ cards were burnt, including voting cubicles, ballot boxes and others.
The sum of N2.5million has been placed on any individual with useful information about the hoodlums that razed the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Abeokuta South Local Government Area of Ogun State.
Some suspected hoodlums had in November burnt an INEC office located at Iyana Mortuary, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
According to reports, the hoodlums numbering about eight reportedly scaled the perimeter fence, jumped into the premises and set the building on fire from the back.
It was gathered that the hoodlums after invading the premises, soaked loaves of bread with petrol and threw the same into the building at different angles to light up the INEC office.
In the attack, over 600,000 permanent voters’ cards were burnt, including voting cubicles, ballot boxes and others.
The Commissioner of Police in Ogun State, Lanre Bankole, directed the State Criminal Investigation Department to immediately commence investigation, with a view to unraveling the arsonists behind the devilish act.
In an effort to bring the hoodlums to justice, “the Command has resolved to reward anybody with credible information that will lead to the arrest of the perpetrators with the sum of N2.5 million,” a statement by the Ogun State police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, read.
However, the Commissioner of Police said anybody with useful information that would assist the command should come forward, while he assured that such information would be treated with utmost confidentiality.