By Sabelo Majola | 2018-03-20
With the national elections around the corner, the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) will create jobs for students and pupils who will work as registration clerks.
This was revealed by the EBC Chairman Chief Gija when quizzed on who will benefit from the job opportunities provided by the coming national elections.
Preference
Chief Gija dismissed claims that the EBC was giving preference to civil servants when it comes to hiring of registration clerks, citing that such may have been the case in yester years but they are doing away with it.
“One would like to first make it clear that it is not the responsibility of the EBC to hire registration clerks but government does that. However, we are advocating for government to give the job opportunities to unemployed students and pupils, preferably those that know computer basics as registration for elections requires them to work with computers.
Hiring of government officers might have been the norm in yester years but that will not be the case this time around,” he said emphatically.
Chief Gija said people sometimes mistakenly take the election officers for registration clerks but these people do separate jobs and they report to separate people. “Election officers are full time employees of government under the ministry of justice and they are the ones who have been going to constituencies recently to educate the communities on changes of boundaries, in particular, but they also tutored the people on civic and voter education exercise,” he added.
The country will be going to the polls in a few months, where Members of Parliament will be elected to form the 11th Parliament.
Last June, the commission distanced itself from a hoax message that was circulating on social media that there are job opportunities for the upcoming 2018 elections. Worth noting is that the recruitment exercise has not commenced yet but the nation will be notified in due course.
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