The management of the Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) camp in Uhogua, Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to create a polling unit within the camp.

Solomon Folorunsho, the Coordinator of the camp, in an interview in Benin said INEC has since reneged on its promise of creating one.

“They had, then, promised us to make the camp a polling unit, but it never came to be. But we are sincerely hoping that they will  consider us and make it good this time,” Mr Folorunsho said.

He explained that creating a polling unit within the camp would help in addressing the challenges of transporting eligible voters from the camp to voting centres  and providing security for them.

Mr Folorunsho said that the camp’s  management usually grapples with such challenges during elections.

He disclosed that at present, there were no fewer than 400 eligible voters with valid voter cards in the camp, adding that those were the IDPs registered before the 2015 general elections.

He added that currently, there were no fewer than 300 prospective eligible voters, who then could not be registered because they were not of voting age.

“So with this population, we need a polling unit here so that we don’t need to begin to think of how to carry them out as well as provide security to accompany them to far places to cast their votes during elections and back,” he said.

“It is on the strength of this that we are appealing to INEC and the other  relevant authorities to consider creating a polling unit here,” he added.

(NAN)