INEC ad-hoc staff protest over non payment of election entitlements- REC reacts

Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC in Enugu, Dr Emeka Ononammadu has warned that the commission will never be intimidated into paying impostors who never worked for the commission during the 2019 general elections.
INEC Ononammadu gave this warning during a press briefing at the office of the commission in Enugu in reaction to a protest on Tuesday by some acclaimed ad-hoc staff who claimed their entitlements were yet to be paid weeks after the election.

The protesters were alleged to have locked up the three gates leading to   the commission’s office, holding staff and visitors hostage, a situation that led to the protesters being teargassed by the Police.

According to Dr Ononammadu confirmed by VAM News, “we have invited the media to clear the air on some negative reportage of INEC which occupied front page in major newspapers and headlines in some television stations despite the efforts made by INEC to clarify issues.

“We are paying our Ad-hoc staff after a thorough verification. Non-payment of genuine ad-hoc staff is history in INEC because payment of this nature is done through Central Bank Electronic platform, a measure approved by INEC to forestall non payment of those who worked.

“When we inquired on the details of few of the protesters, we discovered that majority of them are those INEC did not originally posted to where they claimed they have worked and there is no documentation either in our posting list to support their claims.

Most of them could not have been posted when they are not either youth corpers, students of federal tertiary institutions or staff of federal ministries, agencies and departments.”