Namibia: ECN increases polling officers’ daily rate – Africa Links 24

The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) has announced that it will pay polling officials N$476 after training officials threatened to strike during the election.

Some polling trainees in the Kavango East and West regions, who began their training on 15 November, demanded their training allowance be increased from N$150 to N$300 over the weekend.

However, ECN spokesperson De Wet Siluka yesterday told The Namibian that the allowance of N$150 for training officials will remain the…