Undercover: Inside the ordeals, tales of woe and plights of INEC ad-hoc staff (part 2)

“We were not meant to sleep, we were meant to work overnight”

Our correspondent quizzed further on the popular claim of discomfort by corps members. Prosper disagreed again. “We were put in a primary school. In fact, we were not meant to sleep there, what we were meant to do was sort out materials for different polling units overnight and those that don’t still know how to use the card reader, we were meant to start the process of reorienting them again, so that election will not waste time. We were meant to begin at exactly 8 am.”

Prosper alluded to the fact that there was a level of discomfort but everyone felt the pain. He also said they were given mat and buckets in case they need to freshen up the next morning. “They shared mats and buckets. Mats were enough. One organization came, something like a domestic observer- I don’t know them. Water was there in case they wanted to have baths. I have even readied my mind to just wash my face for the next day’s event.”

“The protest is reasonable if it is over the unpaid allowances”

“The protest they want to carry out is not that they were abandoned. It is that they haven’t been paid any allowance. That training allowance of ₦4,500, some states don pay but Plateau State never pay. If it is that protest, it is reasonable because people need to take care of themselves- buy small food,” Prosper said. However, Prosper made it known that the initial agreement was that the training allowance won’t be paid in instalments. It will be paid as a whole, culminating into about ₦30,000, a decision which was explained to the corps members.
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