Nigeria: SERAP, Corruption Watch, Aneej Ask Jega to Publish Contracts for Printing Ballot Papers

9 February 2015

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), Corruption Watch UK, and the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) have sent an open letter to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega seeking his "Clarifications on the contracts for printing ballot papers for the 2015 elections."

The groups expressed "Concerns at suggestions that INEC may have overpaid considerably for the ballot papers. Information passed to us suggests that INEC may have paid as much as four times more for the ballot papers than they cost to produce. If true, this raises serious issues of transparency and accountability in the procurement process by INEC, and will amount to a fundamental breach of the UN Convention against Corruption, to which Nigeria is a state party."

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