Culled from SaharaReporters.
yesterday at the premises of a local printer in the Essex area of
London.
Their sources said the sensitive election materials,
which ought to have arrived in Nigeria earlier in the week, were
unsecured at the premises of Panther Printing Services in London.
SaharaReporters was able to confirm that a Nigerian firm named Cemoz
International Limited had been contracted to
print some ballot papers for the 2015 presidential elections.
A spokesman for the Independent National Electoral Commission, Kayode
Idowu, confirmed to SaharaReporters that Cemoz International Limited was
one of the firms awarded the contract to print ballot papers.
It appears that, upon getting the contract, Cemoz went shopping for
printers in London to print the ballot papers and then contracted these
other printers to serially number the ballot papers. Although the ballot
papers for the presidential elections for several southwest states were
seen lying around the premises of the printing company in Essex, a
staff at the company, speaking to a correspondent of SaharaReporters,
said the firm only had the contract to print some of the ballot papers
for Jigawa State.
Thinking that their correspondent worked for
Cemoz, the representative of the Essex-based company asked if SR could
give them more jobs, adding that their company had mastered how to print
ballot papers.
SaharaReporters later obtained a bill of lading
showing that Cemoz planned to ship the ballot papers to Nigeria a few
hours before February 14th, the day initially set aside for the
presidential election. INEC subsequently postponed the election for six
weeks.