An Anglican priest, Rev. Maxwell Onyia, has decried the “ineffective” deployment of technology in the conduct of the general elections in Nigeria.
Onyia made the remark on Sunday, while delivering his homily at the Anglican Church of Ascension in Enugu.
Onyia said that effective deployment of technology in elections in Nigeria had become expedient in order to achieve transparency.
He said that in other nations of the world, including some African countries, technology had become an integral part of the electoral process.
He said that the use of technology had made elections easy because “the entire voting, sorting and collation of results are done electronically.”
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The cleric said that in countries with electronic voting, “there is very negligible human interference in the whole voting and collation system’’ as well as less deployment of security personnel.
He said: “In most advanced countries, you vote seamlessly in an open place and it is transferred immediately through technology to a central server, where the votes are sorted, collated and final figures given within few hours.
“This type of system allows for minimal human interference and promotes transparency, fairness and integrity,’’ he said.
Speaking on the theme of the homily, “Deliverance from sin,” the cleric said that from creation, God was concerned about people living a life devoid of all forms of evil and wickedness.
“Sin is an act of disobedience to God’s words. You cannot be disobedient to God and at the same time claim to love God.
“So, we must shun all forms of evil and wickedness and ensure we obey God with all our heart,’’ Onyia said.
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