Tunde Ajaja

There was disquiet at the Independent National Electoral Commission office in the Ikole Local Government Area on Saturday as its ad hoc staff protested the alleged delay in the payment of their allowance.

Security agents, especially policemen, also protested the delay.

Some of the ad hoc staff told our correspondent that they were to be paid N8,500 for training and N9,000 for the election.

It was gathered that while the corps members, who partook in the exercise, had been paid their training fee, others, who were not corps members, had yet to be paid.

But on the amount due to the policemen, some of them who confided in our correspondent, claimed the team of four policemen deployed in each polling unit would share N3,000, saying,  “And that is what we are fighting for here. Can you imagine that?”

A member of the ad hoc staff, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “We even heard that the assistant presiding officer in charge of our money in our ward is nowhere to be found. I hope it’s not true.”

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