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INEC ad-hoc staff protest in Benue

The electoral body sets up a committee to look into the delay in paying the youths
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in Benue, said on Tuesday in Makurdi that it had set up a committee to address the issue of unpaid allowances of its ad hoc staff.
Jacob Ayanda, the INEC Assistant Director, Public Affairs, announced this when the ad hoc staff staged a protest over the non-payment of their allowances for election duty. The protesters, mainly male students of higher institutions within and outside the state, had participated in the just concluded general elections as presiding officers.
They alleged that the female presiding officers were paid, while their male counterparts were left out. One of the protesters, Terver Tiorshi, told journalists that their polling assistants had been paid and that INEC kept telling them that their remuneration was with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
“INEC should have made it clear to us that all presiding officers must be corps members before employing us to work for them,” he said. “They told us that the whole money has been sent to the NYSC Headquarters, but we do not believe them. They just have to do something about it soon to avoid trouble with us.”
However, Ayanda assured them that the committee set up by INEC would meet with the NYSC to find a solution to the problem.

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