Minister of Mines and Steel
Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, yesterday vowed to jail Ekiti State Governor
Ayodele Fayose, if reelected.
He spoke
during the declaration of intent to contest for Ekiti State governorship seat
on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Fayose, he
stated, will be made to account for the gross mismanagement of the state’s
resources and allocation in the last four years.
Fayemi, who
was governor between October 2010 and October 2014, shocked the crowd by
bringing out a red card from his pocket which he symbolically showed to Fayose
and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He lamented the suffering of teachers, state
civil servants, local government workers, and pensioners who are being owed
backlog of arrears of salaries, allowances and benefits.
According to
him, Fayose owes core civil servants six months, local government workers ten
months, community health workers ten months; pensioners, ten months; teachers,
ten months and students, bursaries of over three years.
Fayemi said
Governor Ayo Fayose has no excuse not to pay workers’ salaries and pensioners
benefits having collected two tranches of bailout funds, two tranches of Paris
Club refund cash and Budget Support Funds for thirteen months.
He also
disclosed that latest records from the Debt Management Office (DMO) showed
Fayose has borrowed N56 billion since coming to power in October 2014 with nothing
appreciable to show for it.
Fayemi vowed
that Fayose would be brought to justice at the end of his tenure on how he has
managed all the funds received from the federal government on behalf of the
state.
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