Corp Members lament non payment of Allowance by Some State Governors

Most state governments have suspended the monthly allowances being paid to members of the National Youth Service Corps due to the economic crunch affecting the country.
Some of the states stopped paying the allowances more than one year ago. Before the economic downturn, most states of the federation were paying stipends to the NYSC members deployed in their areas of jurisdiction in order to augment the N19, 800 the Federal Government was giving to the corps members. The worse hit states are Kwara, Ondo, Bauchi which the allowances has not been paid for months.
But as the reality of the economic downturn is biting harder, some states suspended payment of the stipends, thereby leaving the corps members to depend solely on the N19,800 the Federal Government is paying to them. This has forced the corps members to lament.
Corps members in Niger, Rivers, Cross River, Edo and Sokoto states also complained that they had yet to be paid by the state government.
A corps member in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, told one of our correspondents that those serving with the state government had not been paid for six months.