National Youth Service Corps members have expressed dissatisfaction over the continued non-payment of their complete allowances having put up a generally widely regarded performance to ensure that the 2015 general election went successful.

For example, the majority of the Corps members who conducted the elections in Benue are yet to be paid even half of their allowances.

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It would be recalled that the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier Gen. Olawumi Johnson had expressed concerns over the delay of payment of NYSC duty allowance.

He requested through the scheme’s official twitter account, @NYSC_NG, that all corps members who participated in the elections should exercise patience, as everyone will be paid.

A breakdown of the approved allowance for corps members participating in each of the elections:
1. Honorarium – ₦9,000 per election
2. Transportation -₦3,000 per election
3. Feeding allowance -₦1,000 per election

In literal expression, each corps member should be paid a total sum of ₦26,000 for both elections – ₦13,000 apiece – But as it is now, most of the Corps members in Benue have only been paid ₦13,000.

The question that crosses the mind of these Corps members is ‘when’ will the remaining balance be paid?

Meanwhile, some ex-corps members, who worked as assistant polling officers in Kwara State also complained about the non-payment of their allowances by the State’s Independent National Electoral Commission, urging it to pay without further delay.

Corps members also staged a peaceful protest in Calabar demanding the payment of their allowances.