INEC To Give Automatic Employment To Corpers Who Do Well On Election Duty – Yakubu

INEC chairman: We’ll give automatic employment to corps members who do well on election duty

Mahmood
Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC), has promised automatic employment for corps members who do well
on election duty.

Speaking at the daily briefing in Abuja on
Wednesday, the INEC chairman said the commission will definitely reward
excellence in the conduct of this year’s elections.

Responding to
questions on the welfare of corps members seen sleeping on the floor
the night before the postpones elections, Yakubu said he has spoken to
the director general of the National Youth Service Commission (NYSC) on
how to improve the wellbeing of the corps members.

“The youth
corps members are among the most educated, most reliable, most
patriotic, and most readily available ad-hoc staff we have… so we don’t
joke with the wellbeing of corps members,” Yakubu said.

“Arising
from my interaction with DG NYSC yesterday, they are looking at how they
can mobilise mattresses, used by the youth corps members in camp to
places where the youth corps members are going to stay the night so that
the layover before we open the polling units on Saturday can be more
comfortable for them.

“I am waiting for the DG NYSC to submit the
details to the commission, but I want to assure you that anything that
the commission can do to make the corps members comfortable, and all
other staff, including their welfare and security, we will do.”

AUTOMATIC EMPLOYMENT
The
professor also promised automatic employment for corps members who do
exceptionally well in the delivery of their election duties.

“Those
who do exceptionally well during elections are accorded automatic
employment by the commission. We would continue to improve on the
welfare of corps members during elections and do whatever we can to
protect them in the course of election duty.

He added that the
commission has been working with the security agencies to provide
protection even at the corper’s lodges across the nation.

He said in the past, these lodges were raided when the corps members were not around, and stole their personal effects.

Source:- Thecableng