Delta state corp members protests over INEC payment
After the long time warning corp members in Asaba Delta state has given to the NYSC officials over their not releasing their INEC training money, about 4,000 youth corps members on Monday besieged the Oshimili South Local Government office of the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC), Delta State to protest the non-payment of their allowances.
The protesters at Zonal Office of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) said they were neither paid their training nor logistic allowances for the on-going elections since the botched election of February 14and28.
They were matching to barricade the Asaba/Onitsha Highway before the Zonal Inspector, Venerable Njoku, came to safe the situation by pleading with them not take the laws into their
hands.
The corps members, shouted: “Pay us our money, it is long overdue,” “No Payment, No Governorship and House of Assembly elections in Delta State”, “We have been used and dumped”,
“We demand transparency in the system”, “We are all on national duty”, and “Our colleagues in
other states have been paid.”
The spokesperson of the protesters (nameswithheld), who confirmed that all the Batch “A”,“B” and “C” corps members in the state in January participated in the five-day training
exercise, lamented that some had passed out without being paid their backlogs of N1,500 per day, amounting N7,500 for the five days per
person. He wondered why other ad-hoc staff of the commission in other state were paid N10,000 each for logistics for camping, feeding and transportation and the commission is yet to pay in Delta State.
He said, “The process is fraudulent because our colleagues in the Batch “A”, who participated in the training have since passed out and nobody is
talking of how they would be paid again. Is the commission waiting for us to pass out again?”
The State Director, Olive Essien Etakodo however blamed the process on INEC, even as she explained that the process of transferring the payment was slow. While noting that the postponement of the election also contributed to the delay, the Public
Relations Officer of INEC in the state, Mr. Popoola James, said the commission has gone to sort out the problems. 
Commission (INEC), Delta State to protest the non-payment of their allowances.
The protesters at Zonal Office of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) said they were neither paid their training nor logistic allowances for the on-going elections since the botched election of February 14and28.
They were matching to barricade the Asaba/Onitsha Highway before the Zonal Inspector, Venerable Njoku, came to safe the situation by pleading with them not take the laws into their
hands.
The corps members, shouted: “Pay us our money, it is long overdue,” “No Payment, No Governorship and House of Assembly elections in Delta State”, “We have been used and dumped”,
“We demand transparency in the system”, “We are all on national duty”, and “Our colleagues in
other states have been paid.”
The spokesperson of the protesters (nameswithheld), who confirmed that all the Batch “A”,“B” and “C” corps members in the state in January participated in the five-day training
exercise, lamented that some had passed out without being paid their backlogs of N1,500 per day, amounting N7,500 for the five days per
person. He wondered why other ad-hoc staff of the commission in other state were paid N10,000 each for logistics for camping, feeding and transportation and the commission is yet to pay in Delta State.
He said, “The process is fraudulent because our colleagues in the Batch “A”, who participated in the training have since passed out and nobody is
talking of how they would be paid again. Is the commission waiting for us to pass out again?”
The State Director, Olive Essien Etakodo however blamed the process on INEC, even as she explained that the process of transferring the payment was slow. While noting that the postponement of the election also contributed to the delay, the Public
Relations Officer of INEC in the state, Mr. Popoola James, said the commission has gone to sort out the problems.
Pay us our money
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