About 55 Corp Members held hostage in Nasarawa have regain freedom

55 Corp Members who where deployed to work as INEC Adhoc staff in the State Election where held hostage on Saturday 11th April in Assakio, Ashige and Adogi in Lafia LGA in Nasarawa State have regain their freedom with help from security agency ... Read full report from Vanguard

The Corpers were rescued by security men this afternoon and brought to INEC Headquarter in Lafia. The Corps members said they were held hostage by the host communities because INEC returning and collation officers refused to show up after the election was peacefully concluded to collate and return election results. They said when they tried to call the returning officers, they didn't pick their calls and the host communities refused to let them go until security men came to their rescue today.