A Human Rights Lawyer, Dr Kayode Ajulo, has threatened to sue the Independent National Electoral Commission over the use of the National Youth Service Corps members to conduct elections.
Ajulo, who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja, said that the use of corps members by INEC was against the law.
Ajulo said that he was against corps members being used to conducting elections, adding that the law setting up the scheme frowned against it and must be stopped forthwith.
He said that he would sue the electoral umpire if the use of corps members were not jettisoned.
The human rights lawyer said this against the backdrop of reported killings of corps members in some parts of the country during the Feb. 23, Presidential and National Assembly elections.
He decried the numbers of corps members who died during the exercise, adding that if those corps members were from those localities, they would not have been killed.
“If there is an area you want me to advise INEC, is to stop using the NYSC members, particularly the youth corps member that do not even know the terrain.
“You can see the number of youth corps members that died and I believe if those corps members were from those localities they would not have been slaughtered.’’
Ajulo said that the INEC should find a way of getting ad hoc staff without engaging corps members, stressing that there were a lot of youths roaming the areas that could be trained and engaged.
“If actually, INEC needs youths to help as ad hoc staff, nothing stops INEC from recruiting at the outset people within the locality.’’
