Passing-out corps members protest unpaid allowances

Passing out Batch ‘B’ corps members in Ekiti State, who served in public schools, protested at the parade ground on Thursday and called officials of the state government names for withholding their three-month allowance.

At the ceremony in which the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin, represented Governor Kayode Fayemi, the passing-out corps members sang in protest and in anger, demanding the reasons behind the witholding of their allowances.

They claimed that they were being owed three months’ allowance by the state government, and said the representative of the governor must explain to them why they were being owed.

Confirming the development, Ekiti State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mr Tunde Baba-Ahmed, said the corps members that served in public schools were being owed March to May allowances.

According to Baba-Ahmed, the passing out Batch ‘B’ corps members and members of the current Batch ‘C’ still in service were affected.

He urged the state government to redeem its pledge, adding that: “I advise that the money should not be paid through the principals because the corps members were underpaid the last time the money was chanelled through them.”

Baba-Ahmed also sought the assistance of the state government in the provision of utility vehicles, saying utility vehicles were donated to the NYSC in Ekiti State in 2006 and last in 2009.

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