Ad hoc staff of the National Population Commission (NPC) have taken to the streets to protest their unpaid allowances in Bauchi State.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the protest was carried out on Wunti Street in the Bauchi metropolis on Tuesday.
Some of the NPC ad hoc staff workers carried placards with different inscriptions such as “No pay, no work,” “We demand our allowances from the NPC office, etc.
Meanwhile, the spokesman for the ad hoc staff, Abbas Adamu, while addressing the state Director of the NPC and staff in Bauchi, said, “We have done our job but have yet to receive our due allowances.
“On behalf of the ad hoc NPC 2023 census staff who participated as special workforce and facilitators for the upcoming 2023 census exercise, we are here to inform the commission that we, in the attached list, have not received our training allowances which were conducted at Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi from January 23 to February 5 for special workforce and facilitators respectively,” he said.