Minister of Youth
Development, Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi, on Wednesday assured corps members
across the country that their delayed allowances would be paid latest on
Friday.
Abdullahi gave the assurance after an outcry by corps members over the delay in the payment of their allowances.
He told State House correspondents that
he had extracted a commitment from the Director-General of the National
Youth Service Corps, Brigadier-General Nnamdi Okore-Afia, that the
delayed allowances would be paid by Friday.
The minister blamed the NYSC authorities for failing to explain the cause of the delay to the corps members.
He said, “The problem is that at the
point that the allowances are being delayed, the NYSC ought to have come
out to explain to the corps members why the allowances will be
delayed.”
He explained that the delay in payments of allowances to corps members was due to the transition to a new accounting system.
In a statement by his Special Asistant
on Media, Mr. Julius Ogunro, on Tuesday, Abdullahi said the delay was
not unique to corps members alone adding that some civil servants in the
employ of the Federal Government were also affected by the development.
Abdullahi said, “The delay in the
payment of corps members allownace for the month of April is not
deliberate. It is as a result of the transition to the new and better
secured integrated payroll payment system, as part of government’s
commitment to transparency and accountability.
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