FCT Police debunk death of corps member, officer caught with thumb-printed ballot papers

The FCT Police Command has dismissed a trending social media report that a corps member was murdered at Polling Unit 009, Lugbe Local Education Authority (LEA), FCT.

This is as the command equally debunked a report going round that a Police Officer in the same polling unit was caught with thumb printed ballot papers describing it as misinformation.

The command in a statement on Sunday by its Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, said the Officer was only assisting Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Staff to salvage electoral materials after they were attacked by aggrieved electorates at the polling unit.

The incident occurred at Polling Unit 009, Lugbe Local Education Authority (LEA), FCT.

The incident, according to police, began when the officials of the INEC arrived at the Polling Unit with incomplete electoral materials which aggravated the electorates who resorted to attacking the officials and destroying the materials alleging an attempt at disenfranchisement.

“The Officers, in an attempt to prevent the officials from being mobbed and the materials destroyed, assisted in moving some of the items, to the annoyance of the electorates who poured their anger on the officers as well as the officials.

“It is equally pertinent to state that the Corp Member who was attacked in the video was shielded and taken to safety by the Divisional Police Officer and his men from the Lugbe Divisional Headquarters. He was not murdered as alleged in trending news,” Adeh concluded.