 The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has blamed its failure to persecute electoral offenders on the inability of the National Assembly to pass the National Electoral Offences Commission Bill 2022. This is coming as suspected arsonist raises another office of the electoral body in all the local government area of Emma State. The chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmood Yokubu, made a clarification at a one-day strategic interactive meeting with line editors. He called on the federal legislator to expedite action on the passage of the National Electoral Offences Commission Bill. Consistently, since 2009, committees set up on electoral reform have recommended that there should be an Electoral Offences Commission and Tribunal, to which all violators of Electoral Commission will be subjected. Ways recommended in 2009, the Lemu Committee, after the 2011 post-election violence and in 2017, the Ken Namani Committee made the same recommendation. Why is it that we have not as a nation established the Electoral Offences Commission and Tribunal? But happily, happily, the Senate through private members bills are proposed and the proposal has gone through fast and secure reading, who are invited to the public hearing. We supported it and not too long ago, the House of Representatives, who are waiting for the concurrence of the two chambers of the National Assembly to establish this Electoral Offences Commission and Tribunal. We leave the commission of this responsibility and this will lead to speedier, in our view, speedier prosecution of Electoral Offences. So may I seize this opportunity to once again appeal to the National Assembly for expeditious consideration of the bill so that this commission will be established as soon as possible.