Corps members protest in Kaduna overallowances

Members of the National Youth Service Corps in
Kaduna on Thursday protested against the non-
payment of their eight-month allowances by the
Kaduna State Government.
Those affected were both 2011 Batch 'C' and 2012
Batch 'A' doctors serving with the state government.
Each doctor serving with the state government is
being owned N664,000 for the eight months.
Also affected are other medical workers such as
pharmacists and medical laboratory scientists of the
2011 batch 'C' and 2012 batch 'A' serving in the
Kaduna State Ministry of Health.
Addressing journalists at the Nigeria Union of
Journalists secretariat in Kaduna, leader of the
protesting medical workers, Dr. Musa Atiku, said the
government agreed to pay N83,000 each for those of
them serving with the state after four months of the
commencement of their service.
Atiku added that to ensure that the state fulfilled its
own part of the agreement, they had implored
several channels to prevail on the state government
but to no avail.
Atiku said, "We were told that after four months the
state government will begin to pay us our allowances
with which we can use to keep body and soul going.
However, we were short of words when after the
expiration of the agreed months our allowances were
not forth coming.
"Initially, we reported our plight to our respective
NYSC Local Government Inspectors but we were
referred to Zonal Inspectors, from there to the state
coordinator. We made attempt at that levels but it
was not working out as expected. We were given the
deserved attention.
"We went to the Ministry of Health and the
commissioner, Turaki Kalid, referred us to ministry of
Economic Planning and on reaching there we were
told the person we were supposed to see was not on
sit.
"We kept going there consistently until somebody
advised us that the only way we could get the
attention of the authority concern is to go to the
press, which explains why we are here."