 Hello, it's Plus Reports, where we bring you some of the stories and events that made the news recently. And in case you missed out on some of them, don't worry, we've got you covered in this edition. Welcome, I'm Jacinta Obuco. Everyone knows it's election year almost, I mean starting from this year already in terms of preparations. And so, it's not surprising that INEC has been making the news. And this time around the nation's electoral body said it would be working with security agencies to improve the accessibility of the permanent voters' cards. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee Festas Okoye in an exclusive interview also hinted that the agency has retired the use of smart card readers. In other words, it's a good buy to smart card readers, with the introduction of new technology for better operations in the coming elections. And interestingly, Mr Okoye said something to the politicians, political parties and the candidates. Take a look. 72.7 million collected their permanent voters' card before the 2019 general elections, according to the nation's electoral body. This represents 86.3% of the over 84 million registered voters in the country. According to INEC, the percentage of the registered voters as at March 2019 stands at 49.78%. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman Voter Education Festas Okoye said the commission is taking voter education very seriously, especially in the registration of the permanent voters' card. In the next few days and few weeks, we are going to have a meeting with the security agencies and with the key players in the electoral process in terms of rolling out to the 809 registration areas in the country to give access to more people for purposes of registration and also to take the registration much more closer to the people. Okoye confessed how challenging and resource-wasting it is for the agency and the entire country when pivuses are not collected. I want to appeal to Nigerians that the commission spends money, the country spends money to print these permanent voters' cards. And when we spend money to print them, and we spend money in terms of paying registration officers to go for the purposes of distributing some of these permanent voters' cards, and people do not come to collect, it doesn't pay well of us as a people and as a country. So I think that we must realize the power in the PVC and make sure that we collect our permanent voters' cards if we have taken the pains to carry out registration. Earlier, a chieftain of the People's Democratic Party, Bode George, had suggested that INEC adopts the U.S. electoral system come 2023. The system we must use must be a proven system, system that has been used, tested and proven. We know a country that had just concluded their election and they used a system that was near perfect. That is the kind of system we should buy. Okoye has a response to this. We have retired the smart card reader permanently. So we are not going to be hearing about the smart card reader anymore. This is because technology evolves. What we now have is what we call the bimodal voter accreditation device, or the beavers. So this is the gadget we are going to be using from now on. And we are hopeful that these beavers will last us for at least two or three electoral cycles. And we just plead with Nigerian politicians and the political parties and the candidates that they should go back to the grassroots. They should go and come fast for votes. They should go and appeal to the electorates for votes. Because any politician or any political party or any candidate, the things that he or she can manipulate the electoral process through crowdsourcing and through trying to manipulate the processes of accreditation, we receive the shock of his or her life. Equity and law shoes state are by now preparing for their governorship election. Perhaps attesting ground for INEX plans and new technology. Justice, one leg, fairness, one leg and equity. These are the three tripod which the democratic dispensation and the platform sits. Okoye insisted that though the commission is promised an electronic voting and collection of results, it will not be at the comfort of people's homes yet, as it is a long-term project. Now I'm sure that you are aware it's resource wasting for both the INEC and the entire country when you don't collect your peevises. Please let's do the right thing, get registered, collect your peevises and be willing to exercise your civic responsibility. An illegal bunkering, River State Governor Nelson Wike has vowed not to spare anyone involved in the illegal bunkering and refinery activities which has led to suit pollution. Governor Wike maintained that his administration will not succumb to any form of blackmail or sentiment that will be stirred by the perpetrators in an attempt to force trade for efforts at covering the hazardous business. Governor Wike takes a tour of the illegal bunkering site and it's a long walk through the track roads into the forest of Okodo community in Ikwere local government area. He moves into the forest of Ibar community in Emoha local government area with the River State Commissioner of Police Iboca Friday and other security chiefs. The mission is to uncover some crude oil illegal refining sites. Governor Wike talks tough. If I come to doing this and killing my people, no one who is never government will learn of that. And I can tell you, with all due respect, we will take this matter, where is that on here? Yes. We will take this matter, all these matters with police. You have to retrieve the files so that we can prosecute the mother on her own. I don't want any compromises anywhere. And then too, it's not been the ministry. You have to constitute a legal team. Go and get our friends all over the country. Constitute a legal team so that we can do this prosecution to the last. Governor Wike directs the state attorney general and commissioner for justice, Professor Zaki Osadango, a senior advocate of Nigeria, to take over the case files of illegal crude oil refinery operators arrested by the police. It's a serious matter and I'm going to take it. If there is a war, it's not for people that can tell. You must go and arrest that Chief W.J. Watcher. You must arrest that... Fubara Oaxaca. Oaxaca. I want to... Chief probably says it's a crime. You must arrest them. You must. It doesn't matter how highly placed you are. If you like me, department will let you. If I need to arrest them, we'll let them involve. Pick it for me. Yes, sir. You must understand that the law does not respect anybody and I'm going to show the people of the United States who fight this matter. I will fight it to the last. He wonders why the establishment of modular refineries as promised by the federal government is yet to function. And I said to the federal government, if you're not willing to do anything, don't promise people. Don't promise people. You do that. You do that. How can you allow this? How? How? And the people that was involved, please tell IG. I have no right to dismiss the police officer. But tell IG. I don't want the man again in my state. If we should take him to another state to do i-bunkering. Not in my state. Perhaps this could be the straight-in point to restoring clean air in areas affected by suits in the states. Also speaking of illegal i-bunkering, the commander-general of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps NSCDC, Ahmed Abubakar Audi, has deployed a special intelligence corps to reverse state for a mission to unravel allegations against the anti-vandal unit of the state command. This followed a viral video in which the chairman of the local government area of the state alleged that the NSCDC exhibit yard at Oboguru has been used for illegal i-bunkering activities. Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps NSCDC in Riva State has discredited the viral video alleging that the exhibit yard of the command is used for illegal i-bunkering. The command spokesperson Michael Oguntwa-Shea, who spoke with journalists during an inspection visit to the exhibit yard at Oboguru in Ubyakwa local government area of the state, said the facilities is used for storage of products with ongoing litigation. He explained that further investigation into the allegations has been ordered, calling on the people to disregard wrong information on social media. They are here to prove to the general public and the world that Oboguru is having all arrested and handed over products from state security agencies and the NSCDC pending their forfeiture in the federal high court. What you are seeing over there is the talk booth that was handed over to the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps and already the cases have been concluded and it is forfeited already to the federal government. Reacting to the rumored plan by some hoodlums to destroy the NSCDC exhibit yard, the command emphasised that such an act will be strongly resisted. These drums you are seeing, we are all removed from those boots. We have 287 of these drums filled with these illegal products which we are also handed over to us. If you take down you will see that the boats are already sinking so all these boats, all these drums were salvaged from those boats from sinking because they are exhibits which will be turned down to lockout. He also speaks on steps taken by the court over allegations of involvement in illegal oil bunkering leveled against officers of the command. The commandant general of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps has consented a committee to look into the case and that is the reason why the anti-vandal was disbanded, just to let you know that the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps leadership does not in any way condone any act of indiscipline. Correspondent recalls that the commandant general of the NSCDC, Ahmed Abubaka Audi, visited the jetty yard to ascertain the volume of exhibits at Yogo Gora Jetty during a walking visit to the state in December 2012. It's time for a short break now, we'll be right back with more.