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Fayemi denies sacking 2000 Ekiti workers

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Fayemi denies sacking 2000 Ekiti workers

Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi on Friday made clarifications over the report that he sacked 2000 workers employed by his predecessor, Ayodele Fayose.

The governor, who denied sacking any genuine staff of the state public service, explained that the 2000 people he was said to have sacked were fake workers that were erroneously employed by former Governor Fayose.

Fayemi gave the explanation in a statement he released through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olayinka Oyebode.

“Fayemi never sacked anyone. You cannot sack people who are not duly employed in the first place.

“The so called ‘recruitments’ 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. 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 Biometric Payment System and never received any salary since the purported ‘appointments’ in 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’.

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“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 theatre of the absurd, but the affected job seekers ignored the caveat,” the statement read in part.

Fayose had kicked and attacked Governor Fayemi, soon after the news that the 2000 workers he employed at the tail end of his administration had been fired by his successor.

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