A counting official for the NCD Regional Seat at Rita Flynn says the Electoral Commission is not keeping its promises.
Mathew, as he’d like to be called told Inside PNG, they were promised they would be paid by last Thursday but six days have passed and they are yet to be paid.
At 1pm today, Inside PNG visited NCD Regional Counting Center where counting officials sat outside and refused to resume counting.
“The Election Manager and his team told us to count and we counted, but we are not being paid, Mathew said.
At 3am this morning, counting officials doing the night shift stopped counting because of the same issue, delayed payment of outstanding allowances.
“Since Monday, we had no meals provided to us. We were told that we will be paid meal allowances, but that did not happen. Instead, we were only eating coffee and biscuit,” Mathew said.
“Also there are no more fuel vouchers for the PMVs to drop those doing night shifts,” Mathew added.
With all these concerns raised by Mathew, counting is further delayed today.
Despite four weeks of counting for the NCD Regional Seat, counting is still in the primary votes.
There are 50 more boxes remaining before quality checks are done and elimination will begin.
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