The
Independent National Electoral Commission, it has been revealed, might
be planning a special salary scale for its workers. National
Commissioner of INEC in charge of South-West, Prof. Lai Olurode, made
this known in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Thursday.
According
to Olurode, the commission is seeking special pay for its workers to
motivate them and to discourage them from engaging in electoral
malpractice. He said, “The commission is working to make sure that the
staff begin to enjoy a special salary scale. What the commission is
doing is a special assignment and we know that the workers are open to
great temptations, especially from politicians.
“The
work is very risky and the workers who do their work as expected at
times risk being killed. We hope that this would be granted before the
2015 election. We have started engaging the relevant authorities to make
sure that this is done.”
The INEC commissioner also added that INEC would do everything to make the workers happy in order to get the best from them.
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