{"id":368054,"date":"2011-04-04T23:43:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T23:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/04\/peace-corps-to-observe-elections\/"},"modified":"2011-04-04T23:43:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T23:43:04","slug":"peace-corps-to-observe-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/04\/peace-corps-to-observe-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Corps to observe elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"61\">\nPeace Corps of Nigeria (PCN) has been chosen by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to observe the April polls.<\/p>\n<p>The corps National Commandant, Ambassador Dickson Akoh, stated this during a press briefing in Abuja assuring that the leadership of the organization has put everything in place to ensure that its officers and members participate in the assignment.<\/p>\n<p>He said PCN officers have been charged to be\u00a0 patriotic during the discharge of their duties and to ensure that they don\u2019t compromise their civic responsibilities for any form of gratifications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to our commitment towards the discharge of our duties, we have made available a code of conduct document for our officers and members deployed for the election monitoring\/observation exercise and they will be made to sign the code of conduct before commencement of the exercise, as the leadership of this organization will not hesitate to sanction appropriately, anyone found wanting in the act of participating or facilitating electoral malpractices directly or indirectly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He commended the implementation strategies already mapped out by INEC to guarantee the free and fair conduct of the forthcoming elections, and urged Nigerians to support INEC by participating actively in the general elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven as we commend the preparedness of INEC and various security agencies in the country towards ensuring the conduct of peaceful election, we urge the various political parties to embrace peace and shun violence by seeing themselves as partners in progress.<\/p>\n<pre><br \/><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dailytrust.dailytrust.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=16059:peace-corps-to-observe-elections&amp;catid=4:city-news&amp;Itemid=4\" title=\"Peace Corps to observe elections\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peace Corps to observe elections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN) has been chosen by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to observe the April polls. The corps National Commandant, Ambassador Dickson Akoh, stated this during a press briefing in Abuja assuring that the leadership of the organization has put everything in place to ensure that its officers and members participate in the assignment. He said PCN officers have been charged to be\u00a0 patriotic during the discharge of their duties and to ensure that they don\u2019t compromise their civic responsibilities for any form of gratifications. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Peace Corps to observe elections - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/04\/peace-corps-to-observe-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Peace Corps to observe elections - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN) has been chosen by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to observe the April polls. 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