There is a report that came to us this morning that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has started paying ‘movement allowance’ to Corps members who worked as its Adhoc staff during the 2019 general election.
Some Corps members received the sum of N3,000, some N3,500, while some others are yet to recieve.
The payment started yesterday (Friday 17 May), and it still on-going according to a reliable source.
INEC disagree over corps members’ election duty allowances
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Anambra State has directed Corps members who are yet to be paid after working for INEC during 2019 general elections to forward their names to its secretariat.
The NYSC Anambra state Coordinator, Mr Kehinde Aremu, gave the directive while addressing some corps members in Awka on Tuesday.
Aremu said the directive became necessary following a letter from the Independent National Electoral Commission, Anambra office, which claimed that the commission had paid all corps members who worked as ad-hoc staff during the elections.
Recalls that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) engaged the service of Corps members as ad hoc staff during the 2019 general elections in Nigeria.
Also recall that some Corps members staged a protested at the INEC Headquarters in Awka last week, alleging non-payment and incomplete payment of their election duties allowances.
The NYSC coordinator said that the issue had resulted in a quarrel between officials of the two agencies in the state.
He said that he was determined to ensure that Corps members engaged for the electoral duties were not denied their allowances.
Aremu blamed the problem on INEC’s insistence to handle the deployment of NYSC members to polling units rather than allow the scheme to manage the process.
“You were trained by them, deployed by them, but let me assure you, I will never be part of the plot to defraud you.
“I know many of you were not paid and based on that, I have written to INEC again and again but they have replied me with a stinker, saying I am blackmailing INEC.
“In their letter to me, INEC said they have paid all of you who worked as ad hoc staff during the elections,” the coordinator said.
Aremu however, said he had received list of those affected in four Local Government Areas and urged the NYSC Local Government Inspectors in the remaining ones to forward the list of those affected in their areas.
He warned corps members who were deployed but did not report to the polling units or substituted with other persons not to embarrass themselves and the NYSC by including their names.
“What I have done is to ask all local government inspectors to collate the list of everyone who was deployed and who worked during the election so that I can write them again with strong evidence.
“I already have report of those that have not been paid in four out of the 21 council areas; so, I call on the rest to come up with their reports.”
Contacted, Mr Leo Nkedife, Head, Voter Education and Publicity, INEC, Awka, said the NYSC members that protested were those whose names did not tally with the account details they forwarded to the commission.
Nkedife, however, said that the last batch of the affected corps members would be paid on Tuesday.
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What about those corps members that passed out last march, how would they receive their money??