Some Ad-hoc staff members of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in Lagos State have refused to move an inch or commence electoral processes in the ongoing governorship and state houses of assembly elections over alleged unpaid allowances.
The Ad-hoc staff members were supposed to distribute voting materials in 25 wards in Ikeja Local Government of Lagos State but refused to do so, saying “No pay, no work!”
The Ad-hoc staff members, many of whom are corps members of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), at Government Primary School, Ikeja, said except they are paid N20,000 they were meant to collect, that they will not proceed to their polling units to commence voting process. Read more