Nasarawa corps members accuse officials of diverting N98m allowances
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The corps members made the allegation on an online platform, ‘Nairaland’, stating that the NYSC, in connivance with the Nasarawa State Ministry of Education officials embezzled their allowances.
A corps member, Felicity (surname withheld),
stated that the state government had not paid the youths for the last 10
months.
She said, “Nobody has paid us a kobo. The
allowance the state government pay is not much but it goes a long way to show
how much they appreciate our sacrifice to the country.
“It is sad that we are not enjoying the benefits
that other corps members enjoy in other states.”
But the state coordinator of the NYSC, Mrs. Zainab
Isah, debunked the allegation that NYSC officials connived with state
government officials to embezzle the corps members N98m allowance.
Isah said the NYSC was working hard to ensure that
the youths get their allowances from the state government as soon as possible.
But when contacted, the Nasarawa State
Commissioner for Education, Mr. Aliyu Tijani, insisted that the government had
paid the allowances of all the corps members whose names were submitted to his
ministry.
He said the NYSC state coordinator forwarded names
of corps members who were being owed arrears of allowances to the tune of N98m
which he said the government could not pay.
“How did the management of the NYSC come about the
N98m arrears of allowances? I can’t pay what I don’t know,” he said.
Punch
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