Health corpers doing their NYSC program in Bwari Area Council, Abuja are protesting the failure of the council authorities to pay their monthly allowances since March this year. The corpers from Batch C of the National Youth Service Corps began their service in December 2014.
The authorities had requested the services of health care youth corpers whom they posted to the various health facilities in the area council. They placed the medical doctors on monthly allowances of N100,000 (one hundred thousand naira) and the pharmacists, nurses, laboratory technicians etc N70,000 (seventy thousand naira).
However, the youth corpers said that they were short paid by 30% in January. The doctors received payment alerts of seventy thousand naira as against the expected one hundred thousand. The rest got fifty thousand naira instead of seventy thousand. Upon enquiry, they were told that the area council could no longer pay what was initially promised, due to paucity of funds.
Despite the cut in their monthly payments, the youth corpers said their main grouse is that they have not been paid since February and their service ends in October. That would mean that they could be leaving with about ten 🔟 months of their allowances unpaid.
The health corpers are also worried about stories making the rounds in the rumor mill that a lot of NYSC members had in the past left Bwari Area Council will months of unpaid allowances.
Attempts by Brekete Family Show to reach the Chairman of Bwari Area Council on Friday were not successful. The youth corpers said that the Zonal Inspector of the National Youth Service Corps had earlier intervened without success.
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