Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ad-hoc staff given the responsibility voting materials in 25 wards under Ikeja local of Lagos state have refused to carry out their duties.
According to Daily Trust, the protesting ad-hoc staff, many of whom members, insisted that they won’t go to the polling units voting process until they are paid the N20,000 they are collect.
Newsflash247 that one of the corps members who among at the Local Government Primary School, Ikeja, lamented had to take such action because the February 23 elections state, they were not paid their allowances by INEC officials.
The corps member, speaking on the condition of anonymity, : “No pay, no work! We won’t move out from here except the N20,000 due to us are paid in full.
“We received N7,000 alert but we are not ready to be taken for granted again they did during the presidential election.”
The INEC supervisory polling officer who was seen at the primary there was nothing she could do about the situation as the had been shared at N7,000 per each corps member.
She said: “We have distributed materials since yesterday evening. are insisting that they won’t move to the field to . What can I do? Where am I going to get the N20,000 each which they are demanding?”
