Nigeria's army has handed over dozens of suspects to police, after they were arrested on suspicion of electoral offences at the polls last weekend, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
Suspects who were arrested by Nigerian Army personnel on election day in connection with various alleged electoral offenses, including stealing a carton of presidential ballot papers, stand in line to be handed over to police in Port Harcourt. AFP/Yasuyoshi CHIBA
All were arrested in the southern state of Rivers on Saturday during the presidential and parliamentary elections, he told reporters in the state capital, Port Harcourt. Iliyasu said that “500,000 naira was found on the major while 2.5 million naira was found with the policemen, believed to have been given to them by agents of the governor,” he said.
A torn carton of presidential ballot papers was seized by the Nigerian Army on election day in the southern Rivers state. AFP/Yasuyoshi CHIBA
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