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Prison staff to protest nonpayment of election duty allowance in Cross River

Some personnel of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCS, in Cross River State are planning to stage a protest over the alleged selective payments of the election duty allowance to mostly personnel at the service headquarters.

The Prison official claimed that Election Duty Allowances were earmarked for certain personnel of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCS, for the last general elections and had warned their senior colleagues not to divert the allowances when paid as they alleged was done in 2019.

Disclosing the idea of staging a peaceful protest to drive home their demands for payments, some affected officers who spoke to DAILY POST anonymously claimed that many actively participated in the election duty but the NCS authorities refused to pay them

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