Samuel Oladipupo
@iamessoodee
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that there is no discrepancy in the allowances of N30, 500 to be paid each corps member participating as ad-hoc staff in this year’s elections.
INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this on Thursday in Abuja, while addressing stakeholders in his third briefing.
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members decried discrepancies in election allowances paid to them after Saturday’s polls shift.
But Yakubu said each corps member was entitled to N4,500 training allowance, including transport (N1,000) and refreshment (N500), for the three-day training period.
Yakubu said, “For deployment on election duty, they are entitled to transport, feeding and an honorarium of N9, 000 and N4, 000, making it N13, 000 each. For the presidential election, N17, 500 is expected to be paid separately to each member. Since no training will be conducted for the second election, he said, each corps member will receive N13, 000, making a total of N30, 500. That is the Standard allowance for corps members.”
