North Central Zone
Election monitoring built for Kogi State's 21 local government areas
Custody is a field reporting and chain of custody platform for election operations. Political parties, campaigns, and civil society observer coalitions working across Kogi State, from Lokoja to every ward, use it so what a field agent sees at a polling unit, an incident, a result sheet, a delay, gets captured in the moment and can be proven afterward that it wasn't altered.
Why terrain matters here
Kogi State spans savanna terrain around the Niger-Benue confluence, with a mix of state capitals and rural LGAs that can sit a long drive from the nearest collation center
An election monitoring tool that only works when a field agent has a strong data connection and the app open leaves real gaps in the record exactly where they matter most. Across Kogi State's 21 LGAs, a platform built for uneven connectivity from the start, not one that assumes it away, is the difference between a complete record and a partial one.
Field reports don't depend on a live connection at the moment they're made; they sync once a signal is available, so a hard-to-reach ward isn't a blind spot.
An agent without a smartphone or data isn't excluded: SMS, voice, and paper are all real reporting channels, not a fallback nobody actually uses.
How reporting reaches the record
The full reporting flow for agents with a smartphone and data: check in, incidents, results, attachments.
Structured reporting for an agent whose only device is a basic phone, or whose data is out.
A written report gets logged and folded into the same audit trail as every digital one.
Every channel feeds the same hash chained audit log, see how Custody's audit trail works, so a report made by SMS from a rural ward carries the same tamper evident record as one made from the app in a state capital.
Running an operation in Kogi State and want to see the platform against your own ward list? Talk to us or browse every state Custody covers.