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EFCC raid Zamfara INEC office over alleged unpaid ad hoc staff allowance

EFCC raid Zamfara INEC office over alleged unpaid ad hoc staff allowance


EFCC operatives


Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday took away four ‘Ghana-must-go’ bags suspected to contain money from the Zamfara State office of Independent National Electoral Commission .
The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the operatives were at the Independent National Electoral Commission office in Gusau in continuation of its investigation of alleged non payment of the allowance of ad hoc staff who conducted the 2019 general election.
Eyewitnesses told NAN that the EFCC operatives arrived the office around noon with heavily armed personnel  and ransacked the facility for close to two hours.
recovered from the office of the accountant.
Some INEC officials who were earlier arrested by the EFCC were brought along during the two-hour search and were afterwards taken back into custody.
A petition to the EFCC by Abdullahi Nasiru, one of the ad hoc staff, had alleged that they were shortchanged by INEC to the tune of over N80 million in the allowances paid to them after the general election when compared to what was paid ad hoc staff in other states.
The EFCC operatives and INEC officials refused to respond to questions from newsmen after the search.


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