INEC offers for sale 132,000 computers, DDC machines worth N35bn

THE National Commissioner, Information and Publicity Committee for Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Chief Solomon Soyebi, said on Wednesday, that the electoral body was offering for sale 132,000 computers and Direct Data Capture Machines (DDC) bought for the 2011 general election.Soyebi, who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, said the computers were worth about N35 billion.The national commissioner said the computers would be sold to state governments for distribution to schools.He said the computers would be sold to the state governments at a price to be determined by a verification committee set up by the commission for the purpose.'INEC will not be selective, as it will be a uniform offer to the state governments and whoever is interested will be given the opportunity to buy.'We are in liaison with the state governments to ensure that the computers are useful to the school children, ' he added.Soyebi said the sale would commence as soon as the committee in charge worked out the modalities for the sale and other related matters.He said some of the equipment would be retained for continuous voter registration at the 813 centres across the country.Soyebi said the decision to sell the computers to secondary schools had become imperative because of the importance that INEC attached to education.He said INEC also wanted to give adequate opportunity to the students to be computer literate.
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