New season, same old political tricks

The days of electioneering are here again. Politics has since taken the better part of the polity. It’s all right if the politicians are the ones in the thick of it, never okay for state institutions meant to be independent to get involved in it. That is where the rest of us should get worried. This is where I have a problem with the recent statement of the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Suleiman Abba, that his institution will collaborate with other security agencies “to ensure that candidates with criminal records are not allowed to contest the election”.

It is a no brainer that any serious society would not want to see its governance structure, especially the elected positions, populated by criminals. It is equally nothing spectacular for a police chief to state that he would move against criminals. Pray, isn’t that what we pay our police to do anyway? On the face of it, therefore, the police boss should be commended for this position. But then, we know these are unusual times in an unusual clime. So some of us have to see beyond what is stated.

Notice that the police boss did not talk about ‘criminals’, but persons with ‘criminal records’. And both connote different things with different legal meanings. While a criminal is someone involved in criminal activities, someone with ‘criminal records’ could mean a criminal, a convict, an ex-convict and even an accused. Are these the whole array of persons the police boss wants to move against? More importantly, why is this planned investigative collaboration among the security agencies limited to or focused on election only? That, therefore, raises questions of political undertones and could possibly link the police to allegations of partisanship.

To be sure, the only lawful way to stop someone from contesting an election on account of criminality is to show that the person is a convict. It is not enough that the person has a ‘criminal record’. After all, what does it take to create a criminal record apart from an allegation of crime, and bingo, a person becomes one with ‘criminal record’, no matter how unreasonable and unfathomable? So then, in the wisdom of the police, that is enough to make a person liable to be stopped from seeking election.

Even if we have strong reasons to believe that someone has committed a crime, we still need a court conviction to stop them from standing election; otherwise they can stand election, even when they are in lawful police or court custody. And that was what happened to Senator Iyiola Omisore and Governor Theodore Orji in 2007.

The point must be made that the police and all law enforcement agencies ought to be interested in ridding the society of crime or bursting criminal activities through investigation, prevention and prosecution at all times. If the police and other law enforcement agencies have all along failed to prosecute ‘politicians with criminal records’, it is mischievous and dubious to use such information as cheap blackmail just to stop them as candidates. And if our history on this is anything to go by, immediately after the elections, when the law enforcement agents would have effectively stopped certain politicians from advancing their political interests, nothing else happens. The cases are usually abandoned.

Flash back to 2007. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other agencies like the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) were ready tools in the hands of the Olusegun Obasanjo administration to frustrate the political ambitions of some politicians, notably the then Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on allegations of corruption. EFCC even brandished a notorious list from its supposed black book (white book, it should be actually) of ‘indicted politicians’, from which many politicians had to fight with every drop of their blood to extricate themselves.

It took Atiku several months of ingress and egress in the law courts, up to a couple of days to the presidential election, for the Supreme Court to save him from being disqualified. The Supreme Court held then, rightly so, that anything short of a court conviction did not amount to an ‘indictment’ weighty enough to disqualify a person from standing election. Interestingly, after the elections for which the ‘criminal record’ politicians are harassed, they are hardly ever moved against by way of prosecution for their alleged criminal records. And if they ever are tried, there is lack of diligent prosecution. Which means this whole thing was all politics.

We cannot continue repeating the same atrocious strategy every election season.

Published in The Niche newspaper on Sunday September 28, 2014. - See more at: http://www.thenicheng.com/new-season-old-political-tricks/#sthash.FiTEPja9.dpuf

Lies, blatant lies and statistics

While we were up about doing so many other things, in the first half of this year, more than 500,000 people got new jobs in the country. Yes you read that correctly. More than half a million people in Nigeria got ‘new’ jobs between January and June of this year, and those jobs never existed before now. They were created within our economy, which is now Africa’s largest, in case you’ve forgotten. And that information is coming from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Their exact figure says 500,224 jobs!

Now, if you still know someone who didn’t get a job during that period, you need to find out under what rock the person had been hiding all through that time to have missed out on this windfall from our economy. He or she would be forgiven, however, if he was one of those who were scammed in the name of job opportunities in the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment or even died in the process, for they would be excused for at least trying but failing.

NBS said 334,680 of those jobs were created in the informal sector, 154,773 in the formal sector, and 10,771 in the public sector. But seriously, how did the NBS arrive at these figures? Perhaps, it is possible to count how many new jobs have emerged in the public sector, but the private sector, formal and informal, I have my reservation. What is being defined as jobs anyway? We need some details on those too or we may never comprehend. Just as we get confused to read figures of growth of the economy without a corresponding improvement in the wellbeing of citizens.

And do those jobs include part-time, temporary and under-paid jobs or simply under-employments? But that is what statistics does most times. It gives figures without giving meanings to them. That explains why government can pride itself as having increased funding to a particular sector of the economy through the budget. But by the time one analyses the figures, one finds that much of the increases go to overheads, not to capital projects needed to enhance development.

So in effect, anybody can bandy figures and many others would fall for it. What amazes me, though, is when the media goes to town with such figures without interrogation or an attempt to explain that the figures were claims by those who bandied them. Sometime in 2013, the media in Nigeria were awash with report of an event in Zamfara. Most of them reported that about 8,000 women, comprising widows and divorcees went on a protest march, demanding government to help take care of their needs. Who verified the number and authenticity of those figures, apart from what the event organisers put out? Not the news reporters who were too lazy to even add the description that the organisers ‘claimed’ to have that number among their protesting group.

There is another use of statistics in recent times. The group known as Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) has been feeding us with so much statistics that few care to question. At its Port Harcourt rally, it claimed to have collected 4,150,000 signatories from the six states of the South South, just like it claimed some other huge figures in the South East, South West and North Central. The media, as usual, reported those figures as facts.

This must sure remind many of the one million man march for Sani Abacha which was immediately responded to by the two million man march. It was up then for people to choose what figures to believe. So next time you hear those statistics being bandied, just remember what someone once said: “There are three levels of lies; lies, blatant lies and statistics!”

Published in The Niche newspaper of Sunday September 21, 2014. - See more at: http://www.thenicheng.com/lies-blatant-lies-and-statistics/#sthash.XQa3tq6E.dpuf

From Valencia Hotel to Arsenal House...

Hey, do you remember the names of houses in your alma mater back then? No, I am not talking to people who went to schools with house names like Blue House, Green House and the likes. I am addressing people whose houses had real names, and often with a good sense of history attached to them.

Ever wondered what houses are named in contemporary schools today? I saw one today and was I amazed. All through this afternoon and evening, across much of Gwarinpa area of Abuja, motorists were confronted with fliers of one of those private schools that prides itself as an ‘academy’, in a last ditch effort to woo parents to consider choosing the school for their children and wards.

On the fliers were photos of nice-looking homely environments and children at play. I was just going through it when my ever critical eyes found the names of the houses which were named after...wait for it, English football clubs! So I saw Arsenal House, Liverpool House and Manchester United House. Now if that isn't ludicrous, tell me what is?

Okay, okay, more ridiculous than that is the fact that we have a little too many hotels in Abuja, named after foreign football teams. So there are hotels named Chelsea, Valencia, Barcelona, Bolton (White) and Trafford. Naija na wah! 

Playing yo-yo with schools’ resumption

Following the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and our country’s actions to contain it, government did something commendable. It considered how long it might take to contain the danger and reduce the risk of fresh infections, especially of children as one of the most vulnerable. Government then came to the conclusion that it was wise to tread with caution and therefore directed that all schools, public and private, should remain shut, and even those organising holiday coaching should immediately close down until October 13. 

 

Government said then that it would use the period to strengthen its responses, including sharing of appropriate information and mandatory training of at least two staff in each school on how to manage, address and contain the Ebola problem. In the words of the Education Minister, Ibrahim Shekarau: “This is to ensure that adequate preventive measures are put in place before the students report back to school. All state Ministries of Education are to immediately organise and ensure that at least two staff in each school, both public and private, are trained by appropriate health workers on how to handle any suspected case of Ebola and also embark on immediate sensitisation of all teaching and non-teaching staff in all schools on preventive measures. This training of staff must be concluded not later than September 15, 2014.”  

Naturally, there were mixed reactions, expectedly, from a large and diverse country as ours. One question that a few persons asked was: why schools? After all, other gatherings of large number of persons like markets and religious meetings were still happening. Some thought the decision to close only schools reflected our society or government’s attitude towards education, i.e. a low priority. A few parents made fun of how they were going nuts, managing bored children over a period of three months with attendant cost of feeding.

  

By far, the most embarrassing criticism of government was the reminder that while schools were ordered closed, major religious camp meetings and conventions cautioned from being held, the president’s political associates were out campaigning. Those ones have been jumping about from city to city every weekend, organising the rallies to ‘plead’ with President Goodluck Jonathan to run for presidency again in 2015, reminiscent of the Gen. Sani Abacha ‘One Million Man March’ charade.  

One group of persons, however, was already counting other kinds of costs. Some operators of private schools did not in any way find the decision interesting. One of them told a national newspaper that government should have allowed schools like hers that “have the wherewithal to forestall the disease to go ahead and resume”. According to her, there is already a huge campaign on washing of hands, and since the outbreak of the disease, she had instructed that every child’s temperature must be checked at the gate, to ascertain if it is high or low before they can be admitted into the premises. She concluded that theirs is to do their best “while the rest is left for God”. How nice! Apparently taking more precaution does not fall within that range of ‘doing their best’.  

The effect of that August 26 decision of the federal government, difficult as it looked, was that many families had to re-programme their plans, including financial plans. But just a week after, the government again took a turn around, suggesting that it is likely to change that decision. On Wednesday, September 3, the federal government claimed to have done enough to contain the situation and said the resumption date may come sooner than the October 13 date. The government on Friday actually fixed September 22 as the date for resumption of schools.  

What is confusing, however, is what specific thing government has done within one week to warrant the consideration of a change. More importantly, it does not seem as if any training has yet been done for teaching and non-teaching staff of schools as promised by the government. This is even as the risk of infection has increased, with more persons under watch for having had close contact with infected persons.   So who or what is really behind government’s change of position? Have they considered the real risk for children or even the cost, financial, mental etc for the parents as government keeps playing yo-yo with this decision. Having already shifted the resumption date, government’s best action should have been to do all it can to ensure that the October 13 date is realistic, rather than hastily reopening schools.

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Blame it on the devil and God

Have you ever wondered how it is all so easy for many Nigerians to namedrop God or even the devil? Well, I am assuming you are not as guilty as the next citizen. We love to lace our conversations with expressions like, ‘by God’s grace’, ‘God knows’, ‘true to God’, ‘God forbid’ and ‘the devil is a liar’ etc. They all go to show our religiosity, which we virtually wear on our sleeves. Even those who run our affairs in every tier of government have elevated religiosity to state art, sometimes organising prayer sessions for the state, even if some parts of the organisation (cost, honorarium etc) are soaked in corruption. And we hardly see a nexus between the praying states and efficient states. Someone once quipped that even when people (civil servants as an example) hold a meeting to share the loot, they often start and end their meetings with, you guessed right, prayers.

One has no problem with being religious, but more with the attempt of many to excuse or blame everything to some divine or other spiritual being. What can one make of the provocative statement, made penultimate week, by the then president of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) that the fire incident in the football association’s headquarters was ‘an act of God’. That was startling for me, even sacrilegious. What did God have to do with it anyway?

The Glass House had for some time now been embroiled in controversies such as leadership tussle, financial mess and fraud. And in the middle of that came the fire incident which destroyed part of the building and then the man who superintended over the body had the temerity to blame that act on God! It was as provocative as when someone said in 2011 that the violent killing of some young persons on national youth service assignment, during the post-election violence, was an act of God. That was fatalism taken to the hilt.

Saying it was an act of God took away the responsibilities of people to account for their acts of freewill actions, inactions and consequences. It simply suggests that we are pawns or programmed to act in certain ways by some powerful force beyond us. It doesn’t therefore matter if someone carelessly left combustible materials in the house or used naked flames therein, leading to the fire. Similarly, arming and mobilising youths to take up violence in the name of politics shouldn’t be blamed for any resulting mayhem because in both cases, there is a divine power that allows everything to happen.

On the reverse side of the religiosity is the attempt to excuse our failures also to the devil. This is often the case when a criminal is finally picked up after years of atrocities covering different criminal and evil acts. It is now a refrain to hear things like “it was the devil that led me to do it”. An armed robber is caught, and instead of accepting responsibility, he blames it on the devil. Does he then want us to excuse him and go after the devil, wherever it is found? Truth is the devil we know for the moment is the very person we have caught and should be so treated.

Still talking the blame game, Nigerians also love to blame the victims for what befalls them. We blame women for being violated because of how they dressed, how they talked and how they carried themselves. We blame citizens for being attacked by terrorists because they have failed to identify the bad eggs in their own part of the country.

 And just last week, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) blamed citizens for not getting registered for elections because some people who shouldn’t have turned up to register did so or they were disorderly in their behaviour while on the line in the scorching heat and all that blah. So what was INEC thinking when it chose to use just five days to register thousands of potential voters, many of whom turned 18 in the last four years and were unable to register in 2011 despite attempts just as now or were outside the country in 2011? What were they thinking by trying to register that number of people in one location per local government as opposed to the usual practice of registering at every polling unit, yet the single ward registration point was not advertised, even as some wards cannot be covered within two hours travel on bad roads?

So now where lies the blame – God, devil, citizens INEC? The least INEC can do is to accept failure for this and re-strategise immediately on how to provide opportunity to all the excluded potential voters to get on the voter’s list. The idea of asking them to go to the local government offices of INEC to register runs against reasoning. If at ward level it didn’t work, widening that to local government is a disaster in waiting.

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Public officers and public-private costs

The news on Thursday night was that President Goodluck Jonathan would be travelling Friday morning to Germany for a ‘private visit’. The statement gave very limited information. Such limited information about a public officer of the rank of a country’s president, and coming so suddenly, leave much room for speculations and rumours.

But truly, is there or could there really be any such thing as ‘privacy’ for a (Nigerian) president, if virtually every cost associated with the person is borne by the state? It would truly be private if the president did not fly the presidential jet or carry his official passport. It would be truly private if the aides, limited as they may be, who travelled with him were not paid for by the state.

Actually, that would be asking for too much because once elected, a person remains president of Nigeria, wherever he is at any given time. Even if he is on leave, he remains the ‘property’ and responsibility of Nigeria. He carries that responsibility everywhere he goes and is perpetually under the scrutiny of Nigerians.

This really is not about President Jonathan; it is about how and when we draw the line between the official and private activities of public officers at all levels.

Even if we limit such officers to the president, governors, local government chairpersons, leadership of parliamentary houses and heads of the judiciary etc, we still have to draw the line. Drawing those distinctions may often be difficult. This is because the distinction covers responsibilities, rewards and costs.

For one, most of those positions are served by a team of personal aides and officers maintained by the state. There are protocol officers, media aides, security aides and a team of media operatives attached to those offices. They not only cover and report official activities about the officers, but are often bugged down with covering mundane private activities and events of these officers. Sometimes, this coverage goes beyond the officers to their spouses, children and other family members. In such situations, privacy is virtually lost. And what is more, public funds are heavily taken toll of.

While the distinction may be difficult to draw some times, any responsible public official should know when some of their activities are clearly outside official duties and thus do well to save the state the costs for some of those.

It is a no brainer to distinguish state duties from private political interests. Take the case of partisan politics. Why, for instance, do our presidents and governors host meetings and dinners of their political parties in Government House with costs absorbed by the state? Why did the president, vice president and Senate president all travel to Ekiti and Osun states recently to attend campaign rallies for the candidates of their political parties? And for the state governors of the major political parties who regularly abandon their duty posts to attend political party rallies for state level elections in other states, who pays for all those?

Who bears the cost of fuelling and maintaining the aircraft and vehicles? What about the cost of mobilising and maintaining security officers, some of them quite overzealous, during all those non-official events? I observed the gubernatorial elections in Ekiti and Osun states and can attest to the use, misuse and abuse of some of these perks of office by many politicians in public office. I saw armed police personnel sitting by the doors to hotel rooms of politicians. I noticed them sleep away in that sitting position with their arms beside them many nights.

Every day, the threshold of what we tolerate keeps moving because each new occupant of public office comes with his/her own ideas, style and means of doing things, while the institutions we build keep losing their capacity to whip their occupants into line.

How do we begin to stop this madness in the land? One way is through strict application of public service rules or creation of new ones, if the present ones are not enough to cope with present realities. We need to also strengthen the audit of the processes, activities and costs in public offices to ensure that state resources are not squandered by public officials to meet their private ends.

When that happens, most of the costs transferred to the public would be billed on our overly pampered public officers. The president, vice president, Senate president, many state governors of the PDP and the APC should refund or defray the costs they have run up in the last six months doing politics across the country, particularly in relation to the Ekiti and Osun elections. That’s the decency we expect from our politics and it isn’t too much of an expectation.

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Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) Centres in Cross River State

Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) Centres in Cross River State

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CVR Centres in Abi LGA

1 ADADAMA 01 ADADAMA PRI. SCHOOL ADADAMA PRI. SCHOOL

2 AFANYI/IGONIGONI 02 PRI. SCHOOL AFANYI PRI. SCHOOL AFANYI

3 EBOM 03 PRI. SCHOOL EBOM PRI. SCHOOL EBOM

4 EDIBA 04 P.C.N PRI. SCHOOL EDIBA P.C.N PRI. SCHOOL EDIBA

5 EKUREKY I 05 PRIMARY SCHOOL EKUREKU PRIMARY SCHOOL EKUREKU

6 EKUREKY II 06 COMMUNITY PRI. SCH. AGBERA COMMUNITY PRI. SCH. AGBERA

7 IMABANA I 07 IMMACULATE PRI.  SCH.IMABANA IMMACULATE PRI.

SCH.IMABANA

8 IMABANA II 08 EGBENG TOWN HALL EGBENG TOWN HALL

9 ITIGIDI 09 COMMUNITY PRI. SCH.ITIGIDI COMMUNITY PRI. SCH.ITIGIDI

10 USUMUTONG 10 ABEUGO PRI. SCH. ABEUGO ABEUGO PRI. SCH. ABEUGO

CVR Centres in Akamkpa LGA

1 AKAMKPA URBAN 01 ST. JOHN PRIM. SCH. AKAMKPA ST. JOHN PRIM. SCH. AKAMKPA

2 AWI 02 PRIM. SCHOOL AWI PRIM. SCHOOL AWI

3 EKU 03 PRIM. SCHOOL AKOR PRIM. SCHOOL AKOR

4 IKO 04 PRIM. SCHOOL IKO-EKPERAM PRIM. SCHOOL IKO-EKPERAM

5 IKPAI 05 PRIM. SCHOOL NYAJE PRIM. SCHOOL NYAJE

6 MBARAKOM 06 PRIM. SCHOOL MBARAKOM PRIM. SCHOOL MBARAKOM

7 OBAN 07 PRIM. SCHOOL OBAN PRIM. SCHOOL OBAN

8 OJUK NORTH 08 PRIM. SCHOOL MFAMUSING I PRIM. SCHOOL MFAMUSING I

9 OJUK SOUTH 09 PRIM. SCHOOL ANINGEJE PRIM. SCHOOL ANINGEJE

10 UYANGA 10 PRIM. SCHOOL UYANGA PRIM. SCHOOL UYANGA

CVR Centres in Akpabuyo LGA

1 ATIMBO EAST 01 P/G ATIMBO/NEAR POLICE COLLEGE P/S IKOT OFFIONG AMBAI

2 ATIMBO WEST 02 P/ SCH. ETO MKPE YELLOW DUKE P/S ETO MKPE YELLOW DUKE

3 ENEYO 03 P/G EBISA ENEYO ENEYO MEMO PRI. SCH

4 IDUNDU/ANYAGASE 04 PRIM. SCHOOL IDUNDU P/S ANAYANGANSE

5 IKANG CENTRAL 05 PRIM. SCH. IKANG TOWN P/S EKPRI IKANG

6 IKANG NORTH 06 PRIM. SCH. IFIANG NSUN P/S AWKA UBOM

7 IKANG SOUTH 07 PRIM. SCH. ESIGHI P/S ESIGHI

8 IKOT EDEM ODO 08 PRIM. SCH. IKT. EDEM ODO PRIM. SCH. IKT. EDEM ODO

9 IKOT EYO 09 :PRIM. SCH. IKT. EYO EDEM :PRIM. SCH. IKT. EYO EDEM

10 IKOT NAKANDA 10 :P/G IKOT NAKANDA :P/G IKOT NAKANDA

CVR Centres in Bakassi LGA

1 ABANA 01 IKANG CENTRAL, IKANG ABANA TOWN HALL

2 AKPANKAYAN 02 NORTH & IKANG SOUTH P/G AKPANKANYA

3 AKWA 03 NORTH & IKANG SOUTH AKWA TOWN HALL

4 AMBAI EKPA 04 NORTH & IKANG SOUTH P/G NDOR

5 AMOTO 05 NORTH & IKANG SOUTH P/G INE UNYA

6 ARCHIBONG 06 NORTH & IKANG SOUTH ARCHIBONG TOWN HALL

7 ATAI EMA 07 NORTH & IKANG SOUTH ATAI EMA SEC. SCH.

8 EFUT IWANG 08 NORTH & IKANG SOUTH P/G INE AMBENNO

9 EKPOT ABIA 09 NORTH & IKANG SOUTH HEALTH CENTRE EKPOT

10 ODIONG 10 NORTH & IKANG SOUTH P/G ETITIM EFFIOM

CVR Centres in Bekwarra LGA

1 ABUOCHICHE 01 ST. DAVID’S SCH. OCHAGBE P/S ABUOCHICHE

2 AFRIKE OCHAGBE 02 ST. DAVID’S SCH. OCHAGBE ST. DAVID’S SCH. OCHAGBE

3 AFRIKE OKKPECHE 03 ST. IGNATIUS PRIM. SCH. (B) H. CHILD CON.P/S OKPECHE

4 BETEN 04 PRIM. SCH. BETEN PRIM. SCH. BETEN

5 GAKEM 05 ST. MARKS’S P/ S A. GAKEM ST. MARKS’S P/ S A. GAKEM

6 IBIARAGIDI 06 PRIM. SCH. IBIARAGIDI PRIM. SCH. IBIARAGIDI

7 NYANYA 07 NYAN/P/GYA SAC.HEART P/S IDIGWE

8 OTUKPURU 08 PRIM. SCH. OTUKPURU UKUI P/S OTUKPURU AFAA

9 UGBORO 09 COMM. SEC. SCH. UGBORO P/S UGBORO

10 UKPAH 10 CON. SEC. SCH. UKPAH P/S UKPAH

CVR Centres in Biase LGA

1 ABAYONG 01 PRIM. SCH. IJOM PRIM. SCH. IJOM

2 ADIM 02 PRIM. SCH. ADIM PRIM. SCH. ADIM

3 AGWAGUNE/OKURIKE 03 P/G AKOGBENYIM P/S AKURIKE

4 AKPET/ABINI 04 PRIM. SCH. AKPET CENTRAL PRIM. SCH. AKPET CENTRAL

5 BIAKPAN 05 PRIM. SCH. BIAKPAN PRIM. SCH. BIAKPAN

6 EHOM 06 PRIM. SCH. BETEM BIASE SEC.SCH. EHOM

7 EREI NORTH 07 PRIM. SCH. IPENE PRIM. SCH. IPENE

8 EREI SOUTH 08 PRIM. SCH. ABANWA PRIM. SCH. ABANWA

9 IKUN/ETONO 09 PRIM. SCH. ETONO CENTRAL PRIM. SCH. IKUN

10 UMON NORTH 10 PRIM. SCH. IKO/OPARA PRIM. SCH. IKO/OPARA

11 UMON SOUTH 11 PRIM. SCH. UMON ISLAND PRIM. SCH. UMON ISLAND

CVR Centres in Boki LGA

1 ABO 01 PRIM. SCH. ABOTAKC P/S BASUA

2 ALANKWU 02 PRIM. SCH. BETRIKO POLICE STATION BATERIKO

3 BEEBO - BUMAJI 03 PRIM. SCH. OWANBE P/S KAKWE

4 BOJE 04 P/G BOJE PRI. SCH. BOJE

5 BUDA 05 P/G OKUNDE PRI. SCH. KACHUAN

6 BUENTSEBE 06 P/G BOKALUM COMM. SEC. SCH. WULA

7 BUNYIA/OKUBUCHI 07 P/G BUNYIA CUSTOMARY COURT BUNYIA

8 EKPASHI 08 P/G NTAMANTE PRI. SCH. NTAMANTE

9 KAKWAGOM/BAWOP 09 P/G BAWOP CENTRAL PRI. SCH. KAKWAGOM

10 OGEP OSOKOM 10 PRIM. SCH. OKUNDI CUSTOMARY COURT OKUNDI

11 OKU/BORUM/NJUA 11 P/G EBAN PRI. SCH. OKU

CVR Centres in Calabar Municipal LGA

1 ONE 01 PRIM. SCH. BARRACKS RD GOVT. PRI. AKIM

2 TWO 02 OTU ANSA/OQUA AIRPORT FIELD

3 THREE 03 UPPER EDIBA N.A.A.STAFF QTRS.

4 FOUR 04 PRIM. SCH. EDIBA HOUSING EST. PRI. SCH.

5 FIVE 05 BY WAPI WAPI SEC. SCHOOL

6 SIX 06 NSISUK JUNCTION ISHIE PRI. SCHOOL

7 SEVEN 07 PALIAMENTARY GATE WOMEN DEV. CENTRE

8 EIGHT 08 TTC T.T.C CALABAR

9 NINE 09 AGROFEED RD JUNC. PRI. SCH. IKOT EFFANGA

10 TEN 10 ST. AUGUSTINE PRI. SCH. ST.AUGUSTINE PRI.SCH.

CVR Centres in Calabar South LGA

1 ONE 01 CULTURAL CENTRE RED CROSS

2 TWO 02 MARINA/U. A. C. ANWA NYORO

3 THREE 03 NATIVE COURT DUKE TOWN P/S

4 FOUR 04 DUKE TOWN SEC. SCH. CHRIST CHURCH P/S

5 FIVE 05 PRIM. SCH. HAWKINS ANCILLA GIRLS SEC. SCH

6 SIX 06 SALV. ARMY PRIM. SCH. SALV. ARMY PRIM. SCH.

7 SEVEN 07 EMMAN. CHURC PRIM. SCH. EMMAN. CHURC PRIM. SCH.

8 EIGHT 08 PUBLIC COMPLAINT COMM. HENSHAW TOWN SEC. SCH.

9 NINE 09 RONBAR PRIM. SCH. IRONBAR PRI. SCH. ATU

10 TEN 10 LUTHERAN PRIM. SCH. LUTHERAN PRIM. SCH.

11 ELEVEN 11 PRIM. SCH. AMBO PRIM. SCH. AMBO

12 TWELVE 12 PRIM. SCH. MAYNE AVENUE G.S.S MAYNE AVENUE

CVR Centres in Etung LGA

1 ABIA 01 PRIM. SCH. ABIA ABIA TOWN HALL

2 ABIA 02 PRIM. SCH. ABIJANG ABIJANG PRI. SCHOOL

3 AGBOKIM 03 AGBOKIM WATER FALL P/G AGBOKIM TOWN HALL

4 AJASSOR 04 AJASSOR PRIM. SCH. AJASSOR PRI. SCHOOL

5 BENDEGHE 05 PRIM. SCH. EKIMKAE BENDGHE SEC. SCHOOKL

6 EFFRAYA 06 EFFRAYA THREE CORNERS EFFRAYA COUNCIL SECRE.

7 ETOMI 07 OKUNDI COURT YARD ETOMI TOWN HALL

8 ITAKA 08 PRIM. SCH. ITAKA ITAKA PRI.SCHOOL

9 MKPOT 09 MKPOT PRIM. SCH. MKPOT TOWN HALL

10 NSOFANG 10 NSOFANG PRIM. SCH. NSOFANG PRI.SCHOOL

CVR Centres in Ikom LGA

1 ABAYUM 01 PRIM. SCH. EDO PRIM. SCH. EDOR

2 AKPARABONG 02 BUS-STOP AKPARABONG AKPARABONG SEC. SCH.

3 IKOM URBAN I 03 HOLY CHILD CONVENT SCH. HOLY CHILD CONVENT SCH.

4 IKOM URBAN II 04 P/G ADIJINKPOR P/G ADIJINKPOR

5 NDE 05 PRIM. SCH. NDE 3 CORNER PRIM. SCH. NDE 3 CORNER

6 NNAM 06 TOWN HALL ALOK TOWN HALL ALOK

7 NTA/NSELLE 07 PRIM. SCH. ENJEMETOR PRIM. SCH. ENJEMETOR

8 OFUTOP I 08 COMM. SEC. SCH. COMM. SEC. SCH.

9 OFUTOP II 09 PRIM. SCHM EKUKUNELA PRIM. SCHM EKUKUNELA

10 OLULUMO 10 PRIM. SCH. OKUNI PRIM. SCH. OKUNI

11 YALA/NKUM 11 P/G OROM COMM. SEC. SCH. NKUM

CVR Centres in Obanliku LGA

1 BASANG 01 PRIM. SCH. BAYASUNG PRIM. SCH. BASANG

2 BEBI 02 SANKWALA MKT. SQR. SANKWALA MKT. SQR.

3 BECHEVE 03 OGBANKOKO TOWN HALL OGBANKOKO TOWN HALL

4 BECHEVE 04 PRIM. SCH. KETTING PRIM. SCH. KETTING

5 BENDI II 05 PRIM. SCH. BEGIAGBA PRIM. SCH. BEGIAGBA

6 BISHIRI NORTH 06 PRIM. SCH. BISHIRI PRIM. SCH. BISHIRI

7 BISHIRI SOUTH 07 PRIM. SCH. ABLESANG PRIM. SCH. ABLESANG

8 BISU 08 PRIM. SCH. BAYAYAM PRIM. SCH. BAYAYAM

9 BUSI 09 BIKKA TOWN HALL BIKKA TOWN HALL

10 UTANGA 10 PRIM. SCH. KUNDEVEI PRIM. SCH. KUNDEVEI

CVR Centres in Obubra LGA

1 ABABENE 01 GOVT. PRIM SCH. ABABENE GOVT. PRIM SCH. ABABENE

2 APIAPUM 02 COMM. SEC. SCH. PCN APIAPUM

3 IYAMOYONG 03 IYAMOYONG MKT. SQR. IYAMOYONG ROUNDABOUT

4 OBUBRA URBAN 04 PRIM. SCH. OGADA I PRIM. SCH. OGADA I

5 OCHON 05 PRIM. SCH. OCHON PRIM. SCH. OCHON

6 OFAT 06 PRIM. SCH. OFAT PRI. SCH. ONYADAMA

7 OFODUA 07 HOLY CHILD CONV. PRI. SCH. HOLY CHILD CONV. PRI. SCH.

8 OFUMBONGHA/YALA 08 PRIM. SCH. ARARAGHA PCN OFUMBONGHA IV

9 OSOPONG I 09 PRIM. SEC. OFONMANA COMM. SEC.SCH.OGURUDE

10 OSOPONG II 10 PRIM. SCH. ONYADALOG ISOBI OTAKA PLAYGROUND

11 OVONUM 11 PRIM. SCH. OVONUM CPS OVUNOM

CVR Centres in Obudu LGA

1 ALEGE/UBANG 01 PRIM. SCH. OKORDEM PRIM. SCH. OKORDEM

2 ANGIABA/BEGIAKA 02 PRIM. SCH. IBONG PRIM. SCH. IBONG

3 BEGIADING 03 PRIM. SCH. IGWOI PRIM. SCH. IGWOI

4 IPONG 04 ST. THERESA P/ S KAKUM ST. THERESA P/ S KAKUM

5 OBUDU URBAN I 05 GOVT. SEC. SCH. OBUDU GOVT. SEC. SCH. OBUDU

6 OBUDU URBAN II 06 PRIM. SCH. OKWEL-OBUI PRIM. SCH. OKWEL-OBUI

7 UKPE 07 PRIM. SCH. ASHOKPE PRIM. SCH. ASHOKPE

8 UTUGWANG CENTRAL 08 ST. COLMAN’S PRIM. SCH. ST. COLMAN’S PRIM. SCH.

9 UTUGWANG NORTH 09 PRIM. SCH. UKWUTIA PRIM. SCH. UKWUTIA

10 UTUGWNAG SOUTH 10 PRIM. SCH. UKPADA PRIM. SCH. UKPADA

CVR Centres in Odukpani LGA

1 ADIABO/EFUT 01 PRIM. SCH. EFUT IBONDO PRIM. SCH. EFUT IBONDO

2 AKAMKPA 02 P/G AKAMKPA P/G AKAMKPA

3 CREEK-TOWN 1 03 PRIM. SCH. GREEK TOWN PRIM. SCH. GREEK TOWN

4 CREEK-TOWN II 04 PRIM. SCH. IKT. ESSIEN PRIM. SCH. IKT. ESSIEN

5 EKORI/ANAKU 05 POSTAL AGENCY OKURIK POSTAL AGENCY OKURIK

6 ENIONG 06 PRIM. SCH. ATAN ONOYOM PRIM. SCH. ATAN ONOYOM

7 EKI 07 PRIM. SCH. ATAN EKI PRIM. SCH. ATAN EKI

8 OBOMITIAT/MBIABO/EDIONG 08 P/G OBOMITIAT P/G OBOMITIAT

9 ODOT 09 PRIM. SCH. ESUK ODOT PRIM. SCH. ESUK ODOT

10 ODUKPANI CENTRAL 10 PRIM. SCH. NEW NETIM PRIM. SCH. NEW NETIM

11 ONIMAN-RIONG 11 P/S OKOYONG USANGABASI P/S OKOYONG USANGABASI

12 IKONETO 12 PRIM. SCH. IKONETO PRIM. SCH. IKONETO

13 ITO/IDERE/UKWA 13 CENTRAL SCH. ITO CENTRAL SCH. ITO

CVR Centres in Ogoja LGA

1 EKAJUK I 01 PRIM SCH. MFOM I PRIM SCH. MFOM I

2 EKAJUK II 02 PRIM SCH. NWANG PRIM SCH. NWANG

3 MBUBE EAST I 03 ST. PETER’S PRIM. SCH. OSERIM ST. PETER’S PRIM. SCH. OSERIM

4 MBUBE EAST II 04 PRIM. SCH. EGBE PRIM. SCH. EGBE

5 MBUBE WEST I 05 LUTHERAN PRI. SCH. EKUMTAK LUTHERAN PRI. SCH. EKUMTAK

6 MBUBE WEST II 06 CHRIS THE KING PRI.SCH ODAJIE CHRIS THE KING PRI.SCH ODAJIE

7 NKUM IBORR 07 ST. MARK PRI. SCH. UKPAGADA ST. MARK PRI. SCH. UKPAGADA

8 NKUM IREDE 08 PRIM. SCH. IBIL PRIM. SCH. IBIL

9 OGOJA URBAN I 09 ST. BEN’S DEM PRI. SCH. IGOLI ST. BEN’S DEM PRI. SCH. IGOLI

10 OGOJA URBAN II 10 ST. BEN’S PRIM. SCH. ISHIBORI ST. BEN’S PRIM. SCH. ISHIBORI

CVR Centres in Yakurr LGA

1 AFREKPE/EKPENTI 01 ST. FRANCIS PRIM. SCH. ST. FRANCIS PRIM. SCH.

2 AJERE 02 PRIM. SCH. 3 AJERE PRIM. SCH. 3 AJERE

3 ASSIGA 03 OLD TOWN MKT SQR OLD TOWN MKT SQR

4 BIKO BIKO 04 BIKO BIKO TOWN HALL BIKO BIKO TOWN HALL

5 IDOMI 05 PCN PRIM. SCH. IDOM PCN PRIM. SCH. IDOM

6 IJIMAN 06 IJIMAN EVENING MKT. IJIMAN EVENING MKT.

7 IJOM 07 IJOM TOWN HALL IJOM TOWN HALL

8 IKPAKAPIT 08 TOTAL ROUNDABOUT IKPAKAPIT TOWN HALL

9 INYIMA 09 PRIM. SCH. INYIMA PRIM. SCH. INYIMA

10 MKPANI/AGOI 10 AKUGOM TOWN HALL AKUGOM TOWN HALL

11 ABANAKPAI 11 COMM. SEC. NKO COMM. SEC. NKO

12 NKPOLO/UKPAWEN 12 AGOI-EKPO RD AGOI-EKPO RD

13 NTAN 13 KEKONKOLO TOWN HALL KEKONKOLO TOWN HALL

CVR Centres in Yala LGA

1 ECHUMOFANA 01 PRIM. SCH. ECHUMOFANA ST.PAUL PRI. SCHOOL

2 GABU 02 ST. PETER’S PRI. SCH. ST.PATRIC PRI. SCH. GABU

3 IJERAGA 03 ST.PATRIC PRI. SCH. AYUGBE PRI. SCHOOL NO. I

4 NJERAGOM 04 PRIM. SCH. IJIRAGA ST.BENEDICT PRI. SCHOOL

5 OKPOMA 05 MKT. SQR OKPODON CHRIS THE KING PRI.SCHOOL

6 OKUKU 06 CHRIST THE KING PRI.SCH. ST.JOSEPH PRIM. SCH. OKUKU

7 WANIHEM 07 ST.JOSEPH PRIM. SCH. PRI.SCH. WANIHIEM

8 WANIKDADE 08 ST.JOSEPH PRIM. SCH PRI. SCHOOL WANIKADE

9 WANOKOM 09 P/G ADUM MKTSQR. ST.PAUL PRI. SCHOOL

10 YACHE 10 PRIM. SCH. UZENYI ST.FRANCIS PRI. SCHOOL

11 YAHE 11 PRIM. SCH. WANAKOM ST.JOHN PRI. SCHOOL