The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)
members serving in Kuje Area Council on Monday staged a protest over the
inability of the council to pay six months allowances owed them.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports
that the corps members, numbering about 60, barricaded the entrance of
the council secretariat displying placards on which were scripted “pay
us our six months allowances; we are hungry and starving.”
Edna Akpan, the leader
of the corp members, told NAN that they had earlier written to the Kuje
Area Council authorities demanding that their allowances be paid but the
issue was not given the desired attention.
“We have not been paid for over six
months and we don’t have good mattresses at the Corpers’ Lodge; we are
starving in this place.
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