Öas Brown Kasaro rubbishes reports of the ECZ ferrying police officers to Kawambwa with the intention of using them as polling agents, says the officers are in the Constituency only for security purposes By NATION REPORTER THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has denied reports that it has, in collusion with the UPND dispatched several contingents of police officers in Kawambwa with the intention of deploying them as polling agents or presiding officers in a bid to rig the parliamentary vote. Brown Kasoro, the Chief Electoral Officer said it was not true that the Commission in collaboration with the Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security had unleashed police officers on Kawambwa to serve as agents for the electoral body. There has been speculations that the ruling party in collaboration with the commission had reportedly dispatched police officers to Kawambwa to be deployed as polling agents and presiding officers instead of the traditional use of […]
‘No Police deployed as polling agents’
