The people who apparently sold their voter cards will get them back and are encouraged to vote.
Last Wednesday, Isaac Akot Dubo, who chairs the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement for Democratic Chang in Wullu County, was arrested with 909 voter cards.Yesterday SCRN asked Lakes State governor Chol Tong Mayay if he intended to bring to book the owners of the cards.
Eng. Tong said the cards would be returned to their owners for them to be able to vote.
He added he would not press charges against them because it would scare them from the ballot boxes.
Meanwhile, Good News Radio reported that the cards were not sold but collected for security reasons.
Isaac Deech Yaaka, a referendum official in Wullu County, said the 909 voting cards confiscated by security officers were under his custody, adding that Mr. Akot, the man arrested, had nothing to do with the cards.
Mr. Deech explained that arrested Mr. Akot was his brother’s friend who happened to have spent a night at his house.
Mr. Deech said he was surprised over allegations that the arrested man had paid money in exchange for the voter’s cards.