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Corps
Members numbering over 100,000 who served as Adhoc staff have dragged the Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC to court over N7bn unpaid allowances.
The
case is currently before a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court,
Gwagwalada.
According
to the aggrieved corps members, INEC has refused to pay them following the
postponement of the February 16 presidential and National Assembly elections,
despite a series of petitions addressed to the commission.
In
the court paper filed on behalf of one Ifemenam Ozioma and National Youth
Service Corps (NYSC) ad hoc staff, lawyer to the plaintiff, Amobi Nzelu, said
INEC had deliberately refused to pay each staff N15,000 which it initially
agreed to pay to the claimant.
Briefing
newsmen, Nzelu said: “I have the full authority and consent of my principal as
well as the plaintiff and those she is representing to depose to the affidavit.
By virtue of my position, I am very conversant with the facts of this case.
“On
the 20th day of February 2019, I wrote a demand letter to the INEC, demanding
on behalf of the ad-hoc staff payment of both the stimulation/induction course
allowance of N8,000 and N15,000 for the elections.”
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