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Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by CocoaOla: 8:42am On Sep 02, 2019
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Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by SheikhMuniru(m): 8:46am On Sep 02, 2019
Mr Buhari Has Promised To Honour The Dead With Posthumou's Awards Such As MFM, CAC, RCCG, GCFR, etc
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by Blessings4me(m): 8:47am On Sep 02, 2019
Elections of months ago na now una com dey talk of insurance bla bla bla... Thunder dey warm-up.
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by maasoap(m): 8:48am On Sep 02, 2019
Mutemenot:
Insurance company doesn't work in a high risk country like naija. Everything here na risk n you expect someone to agree to cover such a risky life

Insurance companies are making huge profits here in Nigeria my man. People don't really claim insurance in Nigeria, they don't have time, patience and resources to chase insurance up and down, most especially third party vehicle insurance
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by renewable1(m): 8:51am On Sep 02, 2019
Funny post

Do you need solar power system? We can work with your budget.

Check my signature.
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by superlanny(m): 8:53am On Sep 02, 2019
obembet:
The last thing is to risk my life for this country. Nigeria politician keep their loved one outside the country when election. While the foolish one involved cos of money.
obembet smiley
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by FarahAideed: 8:54am On Sep 02, 2019
You mean 35 workers were killed in the elections ? shocked shocked shocked and zombies say the elections were free and fair ?
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by Nobody: 9:02am On Sep 02, 2019
helinues:
Too bad

The insurance companies in Nigeria are not more than a scammer.

Imagine you insured your car, be paying them for years and all of a sudden your car was stolen..

Insurance company would be asking why is it you do not have trackers, why dont you have a fence in your house.. Meanwhile , they saw all that in the beginning yet collecting money

So what was the point of insurance?
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by OGHENAOGIE(m): 9:02am On Sep 02, 2019
REDshouse:
Insurance is a dead commodity in a Shithole country
tomoro somebody ll compare Nigeria to America that's organized... people even some soldiers govt workers no get insurance...
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by OGHENAOGIE(m): 9:02am On Sep 02, 2019
REDshouse:
Insurance is a dead commodity in a Shithole country
tomoro somebody ll compare Nigeria to America that's organized... people even some soldiers govt workers no get insurance... how much more ordinary Nigerians
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by MNDY(m): 9:06am On Sep 02, 2019
Angelfrost:
Even as a corps member then, I never went anywhere close to elections... Never understood what level of hunger, poverty, greed, or "patriotism" would make a graduate risk his life for a useless and lawless process like elections in Nigeria... No security whatsoever.

I did risk mine (in the north for that matter).
No be small thing o.
Never been that scared throughout my life.
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by mekuxiani(m): 9:09am On Sep 02, 2019
iwaeda:

Five months after the 2019 general elections, no fewer than 35 National Youth Service Corps members and other ad hoc workers, who were killed or injured in the process, have yet to get their insurance benefits.

The Independent National Electoral Commission confirmed this figure to our correspondent on Wednesday, adding that eight of the 35 ad hoc workers died during the 2019 general elections, while 27 sustained injuries from accidents or attacks by hoodlums


Our correspondent can confirm that two of the deceased
were corps members, while three others were among the injured.

Recall that about 300,000 corps members participated in the last general elections. Some of them reportedly died or sustained serious injuries during waves of election violence recorded in parts of Ondo, Rivers and a few other states.

In Ondo, a corps member named Ibrahim Okanlawon, who was deployed as an INEC ad hoc worker during the elections, allegedly died in a boat mishap on Saturday, March 10, 2019, while returning with election results.


Okanlawon, who was deployed for the House of Assembly elections, had served in Arogbo Ward II in the Ese Odo Local Government Area of the state, before the accident occurred.

Another corps member, Ibisaki Amachree, was killed during the February 23, 2019, Presidential Election in Rivers State.

Also in Anambra State, the NYSC had confirmed that there was an attack on corps members on election duty at the Obosi Collation Centre in Idemili North Local Government Area.


Unknown gunmen had attacked the centre on Sunday, February 25, 2019, after the Presidential and National Assembly elections and injured the corps members, one of them identified as Benita Sunday.

The electoral commission, in an exclusive interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, said all the 35 cases and insurance claims were being processed by the insurance company engaged by INEC to provide cover for its ad-hoc staff.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of INEC, Rotimi Oyekanmi, stated this, adding that the commission was working with the insurance company to finalise all the cases as soon as possible.


The commission had told our correspondent in April 2019 that it had concluded plans to compile “all necessary information” on the National Youth Service corps members, who were injured or died while serving as ad hoc workers during the 2019 General Elections.

Oyekanmi, in an exclusive chat in April, had disclosed this, adding that the commission had an insurance package for the corps members who served as ad hoc workers.

He said, “INEC regards the life of every Nigerian, whether a youth corps member, ad-hoc worker, security agent or even the voter as very precious and not worth losing on Election Day.


“The commission has an insurance package for corps members who served as ad hoc workers during the elections and we have a history of responding compassionately when corps members or any ad hoc worker is injured or killed.

“Apart from the insurance cover already in place, the commission will gather all the necessary information about the victims and decide on the next steps.

“For instance, in June 2016, the INEC Chairman led a delegation to the NYSC headquarters in Abuja to present a Letter of Appointment to Daniel Oluwatobi, an ex-corps member who lost his sight in an accident while serving as ad hoc worker in Yobe State during the 2011 General Elections.”


Meanwhile, the House of Representatives is considering making the Federal Government to extend its life insurance policy enjoyed by civil servants to members of the National Youth Service Corps.

The proposal is contained in a bill sponsored by a member, Mr Abdullahi Ibrahim, seeking to amend the NYSC Act, which passed the first reading in July 2019.

Our correspondent on Monday obtained a copy of the bill, entitled, ‘A Bill for an Act to amend the National Youth Service Corps Act Cap. No. 84 LFN to make it mandatory for the service corps to provide life insurance policy for corps members and to provide for matters incidental thereto, 2019.’

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Tomorrow they'll ll still send them to conduct elections and get killed Nigeria I weep for you
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by Nobody: 9:22am On Sep 02, 2019
If you are in Nigeria and still don’t know our country is a scam then you have yourself to blame when the inevitable misfortune falls on you,most of us have gotten use to the lifestyle and it doesn’t bother us as much as it should.
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by 9gerian: 9:25am On Sep 02, 2019
My question is how many INEC staff died during the 2019 elections?

INEC should stop using NYSC, thereby putting people’s children and wards in the line of fire during their ill planned elections. I’m so angry at this news. Did any of the president or minister’s children work with INEC during the election, or were they not serving then?

So they kept their own children and had other people’s children drafted to face election thugs that had been mobilized to cause mayhem.

Honestly, the affected parents should just sue INEC.

What wicked and selfish leadership Nigeria has!!! cry

iwaeda:

Five months after the 2019 general elections, no fewer than 35 National Youth Service Corps members and other ad hoc workers, who were killed or injured in the process, have yet to get their insurance benefits.

The Independent National Electoral Commission confirmed this figure to our correspondent on Wednesday, adding that eight of the 35 ad hoc workers died during the 2019 general elections, while 27 sustained injuries from accidents or attacks by hoodlums


Our correspondent can confirm that two of the deceased
were corps members, while three others were among the injured.

Recall that about 300,000 corps members participated in the last general elections. Some of them reportedly died or sustained serious injuries during waves of election violence recorded in parts of Ondo, Rivers and a few other states.

In Ondo, a corps member named Ibrahim Okanlawon, who was deployed as an INEC ad hoc worker during the elections, allegedly died in a boat mishap on Saturday, March 10, 2019, while returning with election results.


Okanlawon, who was deployed for the House of Assembly elections, had served in Arogbo Ward II in the Ese Odo Local Government Area of the state, before the accident occurred.

Another corps member, Ibisaki Amachree, was killed during the February 23, 2019, Presidential Election in Rivers State.

Also in Anambra State, the NYSC had confirmed that there was an attack on corps members on election duty at the Obosi Collation Centre in Idemili North Local Government Area.


Unknown gunmen had attacked the centre on Sunday, February 25, 2019, after the Presidential and National Assembly elections and injured the corps members, one of them identified as Benita Sunday.

The electoral commission, in an exclusive interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, said all the 35 cases and insurance claims were being processed by the insurance company engaged by INEC to provide cover for its ad-hoc staff.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of INEC, Rotimi Oyekanmi, stated this, adding that the commission was working with the insurance company to finalise all the cases as soon as possible.


The commission had told our correspondent in April 2019 that it had concluded plans to compile “all necessary information” on the National Youth Service corps members, who were injured or died while serving as ad hoc workers during the 2019 General Elections.

Oyekanmi, in an exclusive chat in April, had disclosed this, adding that the commission had an insurance package for the corps members who served as ad hoc workers.

He said, “INEC regards the life of every Nigerian, whether a youth corps member, ad-hoc worker, security agent or even the voter as very precious and not worth losing on Election Day.


“The commission has an insurance package for corps members who served as ad hoc workers during the elections and we have a history of responding compassionately when corps members or any ad hoc worker is injured or killed.

“Apart from the insurance cover already in place, the commission will gather all the necessary information about the victims and decide on the next steps.

“For instance, in June 2016, the INEC Chairman led a delegation to the NYSC headquarters in Abuja to present a Letter of Appointment to Daniel Oluwatobi, an ex-corps member who lost his sight in an accident while serving as ad hoc worker in Yobe State during the 2011 General Elections.”


Meanwhile, the House of Representatives is considering making the Federal Government to extend its life insurance policy enjoyed by civil servants to members of the National Youth Service Corps.

The proposal is contained in a bill sponsored by a member, Mr Abdullahi Ibrahim, seeking to amend the NYSC Act, which passed the first reading in July 2019.

Our correspondent on Monday obtained a copy of the bill, entitled, ‘A Bill for an Act to amend the National Youth Service Corps Act Cap. No. 84 LFN to make it mandatory for the service corps to provide life insurance policy for corps members and to provide for matters incidental thereto, 2019.’

https://punchng.com/no-insurance-for-35-slain-nysc-members-others/amp/
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by lonlytroy(m): 9:46am On Sep 02, 2019
In Femi Kuti's Voice '' I sorry sorry oO''
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by Martins811: 10:19am On Sep 02, 2019
[color=#006600][/color]see below
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by dave4rella(m): 10:25am On Sep 02, 2019
shocked
I was nearly killed during the election
ThankGod I made a Gf in my pooling unit
Who hid me and Gave me a faq at the same time
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by vickodedon(m): 11:53am On Sep 02, 2019
Only the lives of the legislative members matters in this country
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by tsavkeghps(m): 11:54am On Sep 02, 2019
Kai
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by gaventa: 12:20pm On Sep 02, 2019
Lol I pity the offsprings of those forming good citizens online. May God not allow evil befall is that’s when you will realize Nigeria isn’t just a shithole but a wasted nation.
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by jaxxy(m): 12:33pm On Sep 02, 2019
Angelfrost:
Even as a corps member then, I never went anywhere close to elections... Never understood what level of hunger, poverty, greed, or "patriotism" would make a graduate risk his life for a useless and lawless process like elections in Nigeria... No security whatsoever.


We hold elections in this country like we are barbarians. Even law enforcement is part of the problem by actions and inactions.

Why can’t the election process be improved upon so it’s safer and more effective? No they want to use the violence and loopholes to their selfish advantages.

God will judge them. Absolute nonsense.
Re: No Insurance For 35 Slain NYSC Members, Others by NaijaDonCast(m): 1:02pm On Sep 02, 2019
YOU die for Nigeria is a die for cows

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