Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will deploy satellite technology in its quest to review Nigeria’s electoral boundaries and constituencies.
Attahiru Jega, INEC Chairman, was speaking in Abuja while visiting the Nigerian National Space Research and Development Agency (NASDRA).
According to the INEC Chairman, NASDRA has the required top quality facilities and manpower to undertake the project, which he said is long overdue.
Jega said the review will bring about more equality in political representation, and will also prevent mal-apportionments.
Specifically, he asked NASDRA to provide the commission with hard and soft copies of high resolution images of the entire country.
“We will therefore want NASDRA to help us in getting high resolution imagery covering the entire nation as at 2012 in hard and soft copies,” Jega said.
“We also want imagery showing new settlements in Nigeria by states in hard and soft copies. Also, we will need imagery of population density in Nigeria in hard and soft copies.”
The commission is also after street maps of all of the country.
