A political group, Youths In Politics (YIP), yesterday marched to the Lagos State Office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), demanding more voter enrolment machines.

The group, which arrived at the INEC office in Sabo-Yaba around noon, complained that the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) was taking too much time.

President/Convener of the group Michael Nwabufo, who addressed reporters, said the exercise was strenuous and time consuming, hence the need for INEC to ease the process by taking the machines closer to the people.

He said: “We are here to ask for more voter enrolment machines in the state. So many youths who want to register are discouraged because the process is time consuming. This is why many are not turning up.

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“Youths don’t have time to waste, so INEC must allocate more machines to Lagos State to ease the process at various local government areas. In fact, INEC should put a machine each in the 245 wards in the state.

“The current number of machines in the state cannot cope with the density in some areas. Some areas need additional mobile registration centres. The exercise is taking too much time and days. We have long queues in some areas like Lagos Island, Oshodi-Isolo, Alimosho, Eti-Osa and so on.”

Nwabufo said the group was ready to volunteer in any way to assist INEC in organising and mobilising youths to register if the commission provided more machines.

According to him, one of the groups’ leaders recently picked number 1,000 while trying to register at Ajao Estate, in Oshodi-Isolo local government area, and on the second day, the same applicant picked number 700.

Nwabufo added: “We have gone round and we are not satisfied with the number of machines we saw. Sometimes, if you go to INEC office in a local government area, you will see only two machines, and you see over 1,000 people seeking to register. It doesn’t make sense.