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In the part of Lagos where I live, I have never succeeded in registering for anything. Not once. And this is the third voter registration exercise that has taken place since I moved in there.
For two days of last week, I spent a total two hours and twenty-five minutes at the registration centre, without getting registered.
In many places, they just provided only half-trained staff and non-functional machines. The citizens, determined to make sure that all goes well (in spite of government's obvious wish for the contrary) have gone out of there way to provide seats, tables, canopies and, in some instances, fans and ice blocks and generators. At no cost to government and INEC. That is what happens when the poor masses want government programmes to succeed. Ironically, the government that should drive the project is the one placing hurdles on the path to success, and then turning around to blame and threaten us.
When are we ever going to do these most basic things with some sincerity? When?
By Steve Nwosu, in Frank Talk, DailySun, January 26.
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