By M.A. Egge
The National Electoral Commission, NEC, has opened a training session for the polling clerks and staffers who will work at the polling stations for the Presidential and Political Parties elections, in the regions of Marodi-Jeeh, Awdal, Saahil, Togdeer and Sanaag.
The training is earmarked to last for three days.
The trainees would be tutored on skills that would empower them to conduct the balloting processes at the polling stations and the polling booths.
The NEC Chairman Mr. Musa Hassan Yusuf, who spoke at the event underscored the fact the polling stations were the ultimate juncture of electioneering processes hence diligence exhibited by the staffers at these points would directly reflect, impact and determine the success of the whole exercise altogether.
As he advised and urged them to be diligent, he underpinned the fact that they ought to operate as per the legally laid down procedures, adhere and stick to them to the letter.
He underscored the importance and imperativeness of trust, by being true to their undertakings.
He said. “Elections are better or worse than the place, and the place is working according to the law. The governor, the deputy governor and the secretary, the rest are assistants, whether it is the army or the leadership, and we have given the power to those three. understand your work and responsibility, wherever you go, the person is working according to his beliefs, the region he comes from and his university”