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Adamawa NYSC Members Protest Non-Payment Of Allowances

Adamawa NYSC Members Protest Non-Payment Of Allowances

As the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members serving in various states had their passing out parade (POP) on Thursday in joy and funfare, the story was not the same in Adamawa State.

 

In Adamawa, the event was turned into a protest by some corps members who served with the state’s Post Primary School Management Board.

 

The corps members in their hundreds, who had served in various post primary schools across the state, took to the streets, blocking all the entrance leading to Governor Murtala Nyako’s residence in Dogierei GRA.

 

The NYSC members, who held the workers of the board hostage for several hours, forced work to stop as the workers were chased out of their offices, but were not allowed to leave the board premises.

 

The protesting corps members who were demanding for their one year allowances, said the management failed to pay them their allowances since they commenced the mandatory one year service to their father land.

 

According to one of the protesting corps members, Ajiboye Tajudeen, “when we got our posting to the Post Primary School Board, we were told that they would pay at the end of our service year.

 

“Now, today, we are through, nobody has come to tell us why we have not gotten our N22,000”.

 

He further said that “rather than come out to address us, the Executive Secretary of the board, Ayuba Njjodi, took to his heels”.

 

The protesting corps members also barricaded some of the adjoining streets making it impossible for commuters to make use of the roads.

 

They carried placards with inscriptions “Pay Us Our Money”, “We No Go Gree O”, “Stop Eating Our Money”

 

When contacted on his mobile phone, Njjodi, who ran for his life when he saw the angry corps members, said he has not received money for the payment.

 

He stressed: “As I speak with you now, I am with the Secretary to the State Government over the situation”.

 

He however denied that he had collected the Corps members’ allowances.

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