By Alpha Daramy Sesay
Chief electoral
commissioner of NEC, Dr. Christiana Thorpe, has told a press
conference in Freetown yesterday that they would destroy all obsolete
election materials across the fourteen districts in the country.
The ceremony is
expected to start on 20 October, 2012.
She said the
commission had successfully conducted nominations for presidential,
vice presidential and parliamentary candidates, an exercise she noted
saw “no case of objection” so far, adding that they would soon
set up regional and district tally centres in Bo, Kenema and Makeni.
In an interview
with Politico, the chief of external relations, Albert Massaquoi,
said the commission was carrying out the exercise of destroying
useless electoral materials which were left overs of the 2007
elections.
Massaquoi
disclosed that all ballot boxes, papers, invalid voters ID cards
containing faulty names, wrong addresses would be disposed of since
the commission no longer needed them.
Meanwhile, a
comprehensive nomination statistics for presidential and
parliamentary elections in 2007 and 2012 show a slight increase in
number from seven presidential candidates in 2007 to nine in 2012 and
a total of 566 parliamentary candidates in 2007 to 586 in 2012.
However, women are
still less represented since their percentage was 11 per cent in 2007
and 11.40 percent in 2012.
