INEC: We removed INEC staff from civil service salary structure over poor wages- Amupitan

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has disclosed that its unit are among the slightest paid workers successful Nigeria, prompting the committee to prioritise their payment up of the 2027 wide election.

INEC Chairman, Professor Joash Amupitan, disclosed this during the commission’s World Press Conference/National Stakeholders Forum connected preparations for the 2027 election.

Amupitan said the committee had taken “radical steps” to amended the payment of its personnel, including removing INEC from the civilian work outgo operation and establishing a abstracted wage operation for its staff.

“INEC unit [are] the slightest paid successful Nigeria, truthful we felt if we privation to request and clasp our unit responsible, we should springiness them a surviving wage, and that is wherefore we person taken immoderate extremist steps to guarantee that the payment of INEC unit is prioritised,” helium said.

He added “We are not called civilian servants. What we person learned nether the civilian work outgo structure, which we person conscionable removed INEC from, is to person their ain abstracted structure, electoral structure, and abstracted wage operation from the civ...