Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti has responded to claims that he sacked staff members of the state’s public service.
In a statement on Friday, May 17, Fayemi said that he did not at any time sack any staff.
He said that he was only correcting the errors of the Ayodele Fayose-led government Kayode Fayemi, the governor of Ekiti, has said that his government did not sack any bonafide member of the state’s public service.
In a statement by his chief press secretary, Olayinka Oyebode, on Friday, May 17, Governor Fayemi stated that he was only correcting the errors of the Ayodele Fayose-led government, The Nation reports.
The statement said: “Fayemi never sacked anyone. You cannot sack people who are not duly employed in the first place.
The so called “recruitment” carried out were obviously mischievous because it neither followed due process nor was it ever completed “For instance, the affected persons were not duly captured in the Civil Service Structure.
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Apart from a letter of “employment purportedly given them, they do not exist in the state civil service nominal pay roll “Besides, they were never captured in the state’s Bio-metric Payment System and never received any salary since the purported “appointments” since October 2018.
“You can imagine 2,000 applicants who did not know the offices or jobs they were being employed for. An application form that did not indicate the position each applicant was vying for. So, this means they were arbitrarily assigned to jobs after an unprofessional “interview” process.
“How logical is it for a government that was owing 9 months salary/pension to add to wage bill The Local Government Service Commission and others saw through the scam and refused to issue phoney letters to purported “employees”.
“Public notices and announcements of warning were issued to the public by the incoming administration then, that a government that had less than 45 days to leave office should not engage in a theater of the absurd, but the affected job seekers ignored the caveat.
“The said application fee of N1,000 paid by each of then were paid to fraudsters and not into government account.
“A genuine government recruitment application fee will be paid into TSA, and not private accounts. A proper recruitment process will begin as soon as the Head of Service ascertains the available vacancies in the Public Service, in line with the directive of the governor.
“All Ekiti indigenes, including those 2,000 persons whose illegal appointments were cancelled are qualified to apply.” Earlier, reports had it that Fayemi on Wednesday, May 15, allegedly ordered the sack of 2,000 workers employed by Fayose.
Reacting to the alleged disengagement of the Ekiti state workers, Lere Olayinka, the spokesperson to Fayose in a statement on Wednesday, described the action of the governor as wicked and political vendetta promoted to its peak.
