AHEAD of the 2023 general elections, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Friday, said the electoral umpire will put a premium on corps members’ security and welfare while they are on election duties.
Yakubu gave the assurance during a meeting with the acting Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Mrs. Christy Uba, in Abuja.
According to him, the meeting is to officially smoothen out all arrangements for the participation of corps members as ad-hoc staff in the forthcoming general elections as NYSC members form the multitude of ad-hoc staff for the electoral umpire.
In his opening remarks, the INEC Chairman observed that it is practically impossible to conduct elections in Nigeria without the support of the corps members.
The acting NYSC DG, on her part, assured the INEC boss that corps members would go out in teams to cross all T’s and dot all I’s during the elections.
Uba stressed the need for the security of corps members who are participating, as the NYSC is liaising with the Department of Security Services (DSS) to identify crisis-prone areas.
The NYSC boss, however, appealed to INEC to improve the remuneration for the ad-hoc staff.
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