Nigeria– Following the on-going Anambra Governorship elections on Saturday, soldiers has arrested 25 young men on the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway for infringing the no-movement order.

The soldiers stationed at the Abba Junction in Njikoka Local Government Area arrested and detained the men, who are of voting age.

According to reports, Lt. A.O. Quadri, who led the team at the checkpoint, said that the men were arrested for violating the movement restriction order.

“You can see that they are all of voting age and claimed they are coming from Enugu with different stories.

“Some of them claimed they are coming from church while the other boys said they are going to onitsha to vote.

“We kept them here because they have not really committed a crime but their two story versions are not only suspicious but do not justify their moving from Enugu to Onitsha on Election Day,” Quadri said.

He said their directive was to detain anyone in violation of the order and release them after the election.

The major political parties have been accusing one another of plots to import mercenaries to vote with purchased voters’ cards.

The no-movement order imposed on the state started at midnight and will end at 10 p.m. on Saturday.