Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu has said that the commission may use body odour for voter verification in the near future.
Prof. Yakubu said this while speaking at Chatham House in London, on Tueday.
He said an engineer at the commission made the proposal of using body odour to verify voters but he had to ask them to wait.
He commended the commission’s in-house engineers for the design of the BVAS and for always coming up with innovative ideas and designs to enhance the electoral process.
“…In fact, one of them said they were going to introduce a new biometric using body odour. I said, ‘please, not yet. Let’s make haste slowly’. But when he explained it to me, it sounded logical. He said, don’t laugh, chairman, because I said body odour is also biometric. He said, how does your dog recognize you? It is from your body odour and that is why if another person walks into the house it barks, when you move into the house, it wags its tail because it recognizes your body odour. I said, ‘but for elections let’s wait, not now,” he said.
