Violence rocked Nakatindi totalling
Centre where votes for Lusaka Central and Mandevu Constituencies were being
totalled..
Calm has since returned to the centre.
The violence erupted after suspected
Patriotic Front (PF) cadres suspected an Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ)
officer of altering figures and omitting data on some polling station for
relaying to Mulungushi International Conference Centre (MICC).
ZANIS reports that the ECZ Officer who
remained unidentified had to seek refuge from one of the rooms for safety
after the riled cadres pounced on him.
Attempts by the Zambia Police (ZP)
Officers to whisk the man away failed as the cadres pursued him further and
continued beating him.
It was established that five polling
stations were not appearing for the parliamentary candidates while votes from
12 polling stations were omitted from the total votes of the presidential
candidates.
Lusaka Central Constituency has 30
wards.
And ECZ official Josephine Mubita
explained that the anomalies assured that the anormallies would be corrected
before sending the results to MICC.
Mrs. Mubita said the mix up was not
deliberate and that the Commission had since started correcting the errors.
PF candidate for Lusaka Central
Constituency Guy Scott expressed worry over what was happening at Nakatindi.
The incident compelled cadres to demand
that Mandevu constituency votes be counter checked as well.
ZANIS
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