 UNRKN security operators have been charged to ensure rest and prosecution of wood-buyers and violence perpetrators in the days ahead and during the forthcoming Governorship election in Oshun State. A civil society organization which specializes in observing elections, Yaga Africa gave the charge, while briefing journalists on its pre-election observation in various leaky government areas in Oshun State. Yaga described vote buying has a threatening factor that may undermine credibility of the electoral mandate if left unchecked before entering the election. It commended INEC and TSOs on voter education but urged the INEC and security operators to investigate and prosecute any allegation or report on monetization of permanent voter scars by any politician or party agents. Yaga Africa has been observing the pre-elections environment since April 2022. Yaga Africa is watching the vote specifically trained and deployed 32 long-term observers to the 30 LGAs to observe the pre-elections environment until July 14, 2022. It is barely 10 days to the Oshun Governorship elections and the rates of voter inducement across the state is increasing, indicating that money may be a defining factor in the elections in the state. Yaga Africa is therefore concerned that this practice of vote merchandising, if not curbed, will consistently delegitimize political mandates and undermine the credibility of our electoral process. Yaga Africa commends INEC on its efforts on the PVC collection exercise for both old and new registrants. However, we are concerned about the strategies deployed to ensure that the over 333,179 newly produced and printed permanent voter scar are collected by voters before the elections on July 16, 2022. Specifically, the electoral act is very clear about sharing of food and drinks and money in elections. You can go to jail. So if security agencies do their work, if INEC positions the cubicles in a way that guarantees electoral integrity, we may reduce the act of vote-training or merchandising, as you said. But the bigger thing is to continue to appeal to the conscience of our people, to understand the long-term consequences.