The NYSC Director of Press and Public Relations, Mrs
Olubunmi Aderibigbe, in a statement released on
Tuesday has denied the ongoing rumour that the
allowance due to corps members that participated in
the 2015 general election was supposed to be N53,
000 as against the N13,000 they were paid.
The statement also showed the breakdown of the
allowance and how much corps members would be
paid in this forthcoming gubernatorial election on
Saturday.
According to the statement, “the attention of the
NYSC Management has been drawn to an online
publication misinforming corps members that the
allowance due to them for participation in the 2015
General Elections is N53,500.00. The originator of
the false publication is also mobilizing them to shun
the next election on 11 April unless this total sum is
fully paid. “Our preliminary investigation has so far indicated
that this publication did not emanate from our corps
members and it is a mischievous circulation by
some unscrupulous elements to discourage Corps
members from participating in the next election for
whatever reasons best known to them.“To correct the misinformation, management hereby
wishes to put the record straight for public
awareness and restate to corps members in clear
terms their true entitlement for the elections. The
allowances for each corps member is as follows:
“Training allowance of N4,500 only paid directly by
INEC to corps members for the training held before
elections.
“For each of the two elections, a corps member is
entitled to N13,000.00 only, which breaks down to
N9,000.00, N3,000.00 and N1,000.00 for honoraria,
transportation and feeding respectively. This implies
that for the two elections, the total allowance due to
each Corps member is N26,000.00 only. The statement added that the fund for the allowance
was approved by INEC and remitted directly into
each of the NYSC state secretariat’s account a week
before the presidential and National Assembly
elections.
It further disclosed that N13, 000.00 for the
presidential and National Assembly elections had
been fully paid and urged corps members who could
not receive the payment to make complaints
through the approved channels.
“Also, Management has directed that the N13,000
allowance for the 11 April Gubernatorial and State
Assembly Elections should be paid in advance by all
NYSC State Secretariats latest by Friday 10 April
2015. However, the body also warned that corps
members, who opted out after receiving the
advanced payment for participation in Saturday’s
polls, would forfeit their April 2015 monthly
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