The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked for special salary scale for its staff. The National Commissioner of INEC for South-West, Prof. Lai Olurode, disclosed this yesterday in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. He said the commission was seeking the special pay for its workers to motivate them so that they would not be engaged in electoral malpractice.
He said: “The commission is working to make sure that the staff begins to enjoy 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 commission’s 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.” He noted that the INEC was doing everything to make sure that its workers were happy to get the best from them.
Olurode said almost a million persons applied for 1, 500 jobs, which INEC recently advertised. He said the commission had decided that no children of the national commissioners of the INEC would be employed.
According to him, the decision was taken to ensure that children of commissioners were not given undue advantages over other Nigerians who had nobody in the commission.
“No matter how brilliant their children may be, they will not be employed in this recruitment. We are advocating against corruption and we want charity to start at home. But there would be other opportunities when their children who are qualified could be employed.”
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