The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday issued cheques worth N21 million to 10 families of their deceased staff as payment for their Group Life Assurance Claim.
He said the policy to pay the life issurance was borne out of the fact that the process of electoral democracy "remains a very stressful and risky assignment in Nigeria and Africa as a whole," adding that election management agencies should ordinarily not be a life endangering matter.
"It is a sad commentary on our state of being as a society that various staff of the Commission have had to face extreme exposure to strains, pressure, threats and physical assault leading to temporal and at times permanent disability. In some unfortunate cases, death has resulted in the course of what ought to be a civic duty of carrying out electoral duties," Iwu lamented.
"This insurance will also cover the total permanent or temporary disability resulting from accident and natural causes as well as taking care of the medical expenses for career public servants arising from accident," he added.
Life insurance must be paid to electoral workers for disabilities and even death. The significance pretty much explains itself. Electoral workers shouldn't have a life threatening job in any democracy.
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