Nigerian election finances
Solomonsydelle, in Nigerian Curiousity, offers details of the recently approved budget for the upcoming election. Can the INEC really spend all this money in time for a January election?
INEC'S BUDGET APPROVEDThe Senate eventually agreed to give INEC $87.7 billion. That amount breaks down to include the following:
- N4 billion for vehicles
- N3 billion for collapsible ballot boxes
- N5.4 billion for the review of the voter register
- N10.8 billion for operations (personnel cost requirements and cost for registration of voters nationwide)
- N222 million for hotel accommodation for state INEC commissioners
- N3.66 billion for logistics and transport
- N502.5 million for training of staff for voter registration
- N10.3 million for printing of voter register
- N5.4 billion to clean up the electronic voter register after election
- N155.5 million for Servicom
- N64.78 million for electoral hazards allowance
- N222 million for voter education, display of voter register across the 774 Local Government Areas
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