Ad-Hoc Staff: INEC Explains Why It Is Paying Corps Members N30,500 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
February 21, 2019
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has saidthere is no disparity in the payment of 30,500 naira allowances to be paid asentitlements to corps members participating as ad-hoc staff in this year’selections.
INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, said this while addressingstakeholders in his third briefing in Abuja.
National Youth Service Corps, NYSC members decrieddiscrepancies in election allowances paid to them after Saturday’s polls shift.
But Yakubu said each corps member was entitled to 4,500naira training allowance, including transport 1,000 naira and refreshment 500naira, for the three-day training period.
He added that fordeployment on election duty, they are entitled to transport, feeding and anhonorarium of 9,000 and 4, 000 naira making it 13,000 each.  For the presidential election, 17,500 nairais expected to be paid separately to each member.