Over 4,000 card readers destroyed by fire in Anambra -INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says 4,695 smart card readers were destroyed by fire that razed its facility in Anambra State on Tuesday.
The commission’s National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, disclosed this in a statement.
“Initial assessment, however, confirms that a total of 4695 of the Smart Card Readers were destroyed in the inferno,” it said.
PREMIUM TIMES reported how barely four days to the Presidential and National Assembly elections, two containers housing    Smart card readers were on Tuesday gutted by fire at INEC headquarters in Akwa, Anambra State.
It was the third fire incident affecting INEC in 12 days.
Earlier, the INEC office in Plateau State and Abia State were similarly destroyed by fire.