Systematic Upgrade of Smart Card Readers Nationwide Begins Next Week

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that it will commence the systematic hardware and software upgrade of all the Smart Card Readers nationwide next week. The Director, Voter Education and Publicity, Mr. Oluwole Uzzi, disclosed this in a statement issued Monday in Abuja, where he also revealed that the commission has received reports of attempts to clone Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) and sell them online. He said the commission takes these reports seriously and would engage the government and security agencies as well as the promoters of the platform in order to get to the root of it and take all necessary action to take down the advertisement forthwith.