INEC plans special salary for workers

Independent National Electoral Commission is planning a special salary scale for its workers.

National Commissioner of INEC in charge of South-West, Prof. Lai Olurode, said this in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Thursday.

According to him, the commission is seeking special pay for its workers to motivate them and to discourage them from engaging in electoral malpractice.

Olurode 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 the this is done.”

He said INEC would do everything to make the workers happy in order to get the best from them.

The INEC chief 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 favoured.

He said, “No matter how brilliant their children may be, they will not be employed in this recruitment. We are 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.”