IEC does not discriminate against candidates' relatives

FRANCISTOWN: The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) does employ close relatives of aspiring general election candidates as voter registration officers, even in areas of contests.

IEC spokesperson, Osupile Maroba was responding to an outcry from a candidate’s opponents alleging that his cousin was engaged as a registration officer at Itekeng ward in Francistown during the supplementary registration exercise.

“It would be wrong to ban anyone from working as a registration officer anywhere and everywhere they want if they qualify to be registration officers, based on the fact that they are close relatives to elections’ candidates. We would be denying them work opportunities,” Maroba said.

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