APC urges Fayose to pay workers’ entitlements

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has urged the state Governor, Ayodele Fayose to pay workers’ entitlements from the bailout fund released to the State government by the Federal Government.

In a statement by the Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the party accused Fayose of refusing to explain to Ekiti people what he had done with the special funds provided by the Federal Government to the state for the payment backlog of workers’ entitlements, pensions, salaries and severance allowances to former political office holders.

Noting that the governor had failed to take along workers on whose behalf he obtained the money for the settlement of their entitlements, Olatunbosun also accused Fayose of refusing to pay last year September salary and leave bonus to workers.

He said, “He has also refused to pay September, half October Salary, severance and furniture allowances to former political office holders who were captured in the bailout fund protocol even though he announced few days ago on a live television programme that he would pay past political office holders, but he has not done so while the salaries paid into the primary school teachers’ accounts were reversed 30 minutes after they received alerts.”

Olatunbosun also warned the governor against alleged plan to divert the bailout cash to personal use, saying Ekiti workers would not take any excuse for any further delay in the payment of their entitlements after the truth on the actual debt profile of the state had been made known during the ministerial screening when former Governor Kayode Fayemi told the stunned Nigerians that Ekiti debt was N18b against N86b that the governor had been bandying around.

“We call on the CBN, ICPC and EFCC to help appeal to the governor to pay up workers, pensioners and former political appointees their entitlements according to the mandate of the bail out arrangement by the Federal Government and these agencies should monitor the disbursement of the bailout cash to ensure it is spent as approved by the Federal Government,” Olatunbosun said.

He also accused the governor of marginalising the neighbouring towns surrounding Afao-Ekiti, his home town, in the distribution of infrastructure and social amenities, citing restoration of electricity to  Afao, while leaving out Igbemo, Iluomoba and Ijan, even as he also dualised the network of roads within Afao complete with streetlights while the roads in neighbouring bigger towns are in the state of disrepair.

Guardian