Naij.com has received a number of ‘distress calls’ from the NYSC members and ad hoc staff who participated in the 2015 elections but are yet to be paid, or were disappointed with the paid amount, for their assistance by the INEC.
Below are the messages that have originally stirred our interest.
“Let the INEC pay me my money for both elections [presidential and governorship - Naij.com]. They have made payments to some assistants, but not to me. They are unwilling to part with the money after we the corpers of Zamfara state have risked our lives.”
“Can you belive that, after all the hard work we’d done for the INEC, we the academic personnel officers have not been paid? Help me ask Ndokwa West LGA of Delta State authorities where is the money of all the assistant presiding officers? We are on the verge of burning the INEC office, Kwale, because we have endured enough. PDP criminals in Ndokwa West should release our money. During the election period, we fed ourselves and took care of ourselves, we took a high risk of going to another man’s land for the prosperity of the government. Seriously, since I was born, the government has not given me any empowerment!”
“l worked as a PO in this past election 2015 in Akwa lbom state’s Ukanafun LG, and ever since then l have not received any allowance from the INEC.”
We asked our readers about the situation in their locality and made a compilation of their comments collected within the last couple of days.
Representatives of Benue, Oyo and Kogi states say all the staff members have received their INEC payments.
However, the story is not so bright in other areas, even as the INEC have stated on Thursday that money have been transferred to the account of “those affected.” Messages from Anambra, Bayelsa, Taraba, Cross River, Edo, Rivers, Enugu, Kwara, Abuja, and Lagos indicate that some staff members have either not received payment at all, or have only received a part of it.
A member of ad hoc INEC staff from Ondo state says that they have been paid N13,000 for each election, and many believe that this sum is too small a compensation for what they had endured during the polls. Moreover, the INEC officials in Ondo state have deducted some N2,000 from the N13,000 as payment for food catering during the elections exercise.
Many Nigerians from different parts of the country voiced similar concerns and complaints.
Joseph Matthew: In Benue, we were not paid up to the expected amount. Some hoodlums took my phone, and the INEC did nothing about it even when the boys were identified by the elders if the community I worked for.
Chisom Andrea: INEC na selfish people. 18k is too poor for both exercises. They will keep cutting down what people laboured for not knowing that they cut down their grace and favour.
Emeka Jerome Joseph: INEC is of olodo and thiefs. Do you agree with me ? lkorodu, Lagos, just paid half (13k) to some people, and 13k are stil with them.
Nkiruka Ndukwe: The Enugu state INEC chapter has started paying. I have received my own N18,000, but there are some issues. Some people didn’t have their names on the payment list, while some received half of the payment.
Gokzeey Sams: Same here in Isa LGA, Sokoto state. We have not yet been paid for governorship election, and the funny thing is that they still deducted 3k from our allawee!
Ifuwe Benjamin: Some LGA’s in Delta are paying 18k. But does it mean they laboured for just 18k?
Ozioma C. Chimezie: My sister’s payment was slashed down to N18,000… Who ate the remaining money?
Adizua Steven: Here in Enugu, I worked as a PO at Enugu South. I have only been paid the first N13,000. Up till now, a lot of us have not been paid fully. The NYSC and INEC headquarters should look into this case.
NAN reports that the INEC have on Thursday confirmed releasing funds for the payment of allowances to all NYSC members and ad hoc staff that were engaged in the 2015 general elections.
Kayode Idowu, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, attributed “isolated” cases of delayed monetary transfers to submission of incorrect bank account details by some staff.
“The elections were conducted on budget, the budget was made and the monies were made available before the elections by government,” the spokesman said.
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