Election Executives Accuse Board of Withholding Payments, Cutting Contracted Days
Election workers in Ethiopia are protesting against the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) for withholding significant portions of their contractual payments. Workers claim that the board arbitrarily reduced their working days and failed to meet promised disbursement deadlines, causing financial hardship.
Why it matters
The dispute undermines trust in the national electoral process and highlights administrative failures in managing temporary government staff.
(Nairobi, Kenya) — Citizens who served as election workers during Ethiopia’s seventh general election have raised serious complaints against the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) , alleging that the institution has withheld over half of their contractual payments, local media outlet Tikvah Ethiopia reported.
According to the poll workers, the board has failed to disburse the remaining 60 percent payment balance alongside four days of pre-deployment allowances stipulated in their employment contracts.
In addition to delayed funds, election workers reported that when the board released an initial 40 percent payment installment, officials arbitrarily reduced the number of calculated working days without explanation.
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