Mahmood Yakubu: INEC boss defends N9B as cost for hazard, allowances in 2018.

Yakubu explained that the total budgetary figure of the commission for the 2019 general election was still being compiled.

The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has defended the cost of N9billion as estimates for hazard and other allowances of staff members on the field in the 2018 budget.

Daily Trust reports that Yakubu made this known on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 while defending the 2018 budget estimates of the electoral body before the Senate Committee on INEC.

Yakubu, it was further reported, explained that the total budgetary figure of the commission for the 2019 general election was still being compiled.

By Gbenga Bada.

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