Recruitment: INEC Bars Children Of Senior Officials

                             

No child of a national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would be considered for employment in its ongoing recruitment exercise.

INEC National Commissioner, South West, Prof. Lai Olurode, disclosed this, yesterday, in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital.

Olurode said that the stand was taken by the commission to ensure level playing ground in the recruitment exercise in which almost a million persons applied for 1,500 jobs which INEC recently advertised for.

“No matter how brilliant their children may be, they will not be employed in this recruitment exercise. We are against corruption and we think that charity should start at home. But there would be other opportunities when their children who are qualified could be employed.”

The Commissioner also said that plans were in the pipeline to seek special salary scale for workers of the commission. The move according to Olurode was borne out of the commission’s resolve to ensure that its employees were well paid so that they would not be lured by desperate politicians to engage in electoral frauds.

He said, “The commission is working to make sure that the staff begins to enjoy special salary scale. What the commission is doing is a special assignment and we know that the workers are open to great temptations especially from politicians.

“The work is very risky and the commission’s workers who do their work as expected at times risk being killed. We hope that this would be granted before the 2015 election. We have started engaging the relevant authorities to make sure that this is done.”