The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the termination of appointments of the affected workers in the 16 local government areas cuts across the cadres.
Aderemi Ajayi, the chairman of the state's local government service commission, while confirming the sack to NAN in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday, said the names of the affected workers had been removed from the July 2011 salary vouchers.
Mr Ajayi alleged that the affected workers gained employment into the service, using fake certificates and falsified birth certificates.
He explained that the list of the affected staff was compiled by a special verification committee set up by the governor to oversee the activities of the local government administration in the state.
"Those affected were those that gained employment into the local government service using fake certificates and those that ought to have retired but refused to do so by continually falsifying their age.
"The list of the sacked workers was compiled by a committee set up by the state government.
"The committee directed all the local governments in the state to display the names of the affected workers in their respective notice boards on July 15.
"Their names had been removed from the July 2011 salary vouchers. They are to complain to the committee if they even have any complaints at all.
"Although I cannot tell you the exact figure of the affected workers, I can tell you the sack cuts across all the 16 local governments in the state," Mr Ajayi said.
NAN observed that the names of the affected workers were on Friday pasted on the notice boards of the various local government secretariats.
However, one of those affected, who gave his name as Gabriel Aturu said: "The allegations of fake academic certificates and falsification of age are not true but an effort by the government to justify the illegal and brazen sack.
"The sack is an attempt by the officials to fill the vacant posts with their cronies, and political associates at our expense.
"It is unfortunate that the people who took to the streets jubilating over the emergence of Governor Fayemi on October 16, 2010 are weeping nine months after as a result of unprecedented termination of workers' appointments denying them their source of livelihood," Mr Aturu said.
NAN reports that the governor also on July 11 ordered the sack of 27 directors of administration and finance of the local governments over their alleged failure in a promotion examination.
Stephanie, 21 F
Nwokolo, 30 M
Funmilola, 35 F
Doris, 27 F
Olubayo, 38 M
Cindy, 20 F
Sadiya, 22 F
Abosede, 26 F
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how can he do that to workers.... with this that fayemi is doing he will ruin his own city because of this his ungodly action
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has said the state loses about N3 billion annually to ghost workers and other sharp practices from the local government administrations in the state.
He spoke in Abuja, when he met indigenes of the state at a Town Hall meeting attended by Ekiti State indigenes, including members of the National Assembly, the Minister of Police Affairs, Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolade (rtd), Minister of Energy in charge of Gas, Hon. Tunde Odusina, top officials of the Federal Civil Service, captains of industries, Director of Central Bank, among others.
Fayemi, who was responding to questions said, “the audit report showed that over N3 billion was being lost annually by the state government to ghost workers and other sharp practices in the Local Government Service of the state.”
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has said the state loses about N3 billion annually to ghost workers and other sharp practices from the local government administrations in the state.
He spoke in Abuja, when he met indigenes of the state at a Town Hall meeting attended by Ekiti State indigenes, including members of the National Assembly, the Minister of Police Affairs, Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolade (rtd), Minister of Energy in charge of Gas, Hon. Tunde Odusina, top officials of the Federal Civil Service, captains of industries, Director of Central Bank, among others.
Fayemi, who was responding to questions said, “the audit report showed that over N3 billion was being lost annually by the state government to ghost workers and other sharp practices in the Local Government Service of the state.”
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has said the state loses about N3 billion annually to ghost workers and other sharp practices from the local government administrations in the state.
He spoke in Abuja, when he met indigenes of the state at a Town Hall meeting attended by Ekiti State indigenes, including members of the National Assembly, the Minister of Police Affairs, Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolade (rtd), Minister of Energy in charge of Gas, Hon. Tunde Odusina, top officials of the Federal Civil Service, captains of industries, Director of Central Bank, among others.
Fayemi, who was responding to questions said, “the audit report showed that over N3 billion was being lost annually by the state government to ghost workers and other sharp practices in the Local Government Service of the state.”
The envisaged local government election in Ekiti State is now under threat as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state has announced plans to go to court over the composition of the State Independent Electoral Commission.
The PDP also said it would challenge the Local Government Administration (Amendment) Law recently assented to by the state governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, which reduces the tenure of local government chairmen to two years as well as the empowerment of the governor to appoint personal aides of the chairman.
The state PDP chairman, Chief Bola Olu-Ojo, who stated this while addressing newsmen in Ado-Ekiti at the weekend, alleged that the newly constituted Ekiti electoral commission was made up of card-carrying members of the governing Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the state.
Chief Olu-Ojo said his party had been putting finishing touches on the suit the party intended to file against the state governor for signing into law the Local Government Administration (Amendment) Law of Ekiti State and the state’s electoral law.
“Under the new local government amendment law, the governor is empowered to appoint all the aides of local government chairmen and the secretaries of council areas in the state,” the Ekiti PDP boss said and described the power given to the governor under the law as illegal.
According to him, the PDP would “not leave the matter lying low.”
Ekiti State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has said that the state government is yearly losing over N3 billion to ghost workers and other sharp practices in the local government service of the state.
The governor, who spoke against the backdrop of the alleged sack of 5,000 local government staff in the state, explained that 1,689 staff of the local governments were queried and their salaries suspended because they were alleged to have either doctored their dates of birth to prolong their service beyond the required retirement age of 60 years, or got their appointments into the service with forged certificates.
Fayemi, who spoke in Abuja, during an interactive meeting with Ekiti indigenes, said that this was part of the information inherited from the last administration that there “were people who were irregularly employed in the service, particularly at the local government level. Some of them do not possess the certificates they claimed to possess, others are receiving salaries from at about four or five pay-points.”
The governor, who insisted that his administration had not sacked anybody in either the state or the local government service, added that “there are those who have done more than 35 years in service and are over 60 years. And all of these people are in the service, sponging of the commonwealth of you and I. And I think it would be irresponsibility on my part to pretend that I don’t know that this is going on.”
He added: “All we have done with the 1,689 people whose salaries have been stopped is that if they have contrary evidence against the allegations that have been made by the office of the Establishment and Pension, they should bring it forward.
“If you bring that information forward and it is independently verifiable, we will release your salaries and you will keep your job. There will be no problem. The fact of the matter is that we have not sacked a single person in Ekiti State civil service or in the Ekiti State local government service.”
dr fayemi Speaking to airport journalists at the Murtala Mohammed Airport Two (MMA2), Fayemi insisted that what the government did was to professionalise the civil service in the state and that most of those affected had many irregularities in their records. Fayemi pointed out that those who were affected by the exercise knew what to do in order for them to be re-engaged into the system, stressing that the state government would not relegate professionalism and transparency to the background. He said, “Well I am glad ou used the term allegedly, if it was factual you wouldn’t use the word allegedly. We didn’t sack anybody; we have not sacked any worker. We have a transformation process in order to professionalise our public service going on in Ekiti State. And those who were affected by that know what to do in the process. If you are accused of having presented irregular certificate or forged record or doctored your aged, there are mechanisms and process in place to address that.
“Once you have done then the situation is regularised. But if you have not done you can not suggest that you be sacked except you have chosen to sack yourself. One thing that I have to be make very clear is this, we must make up our minds whether we want to run a professional accountable, transparent public service or we want to run a social service. If we want to run a social service in which we want everybody to be on dough, you don’t even have to come to work to be on dough, stay at home, we dough, those who want to work, let them go to work and then they will be paid for the work they do.”
He stated that the government would no longer tolerate any indulgence from any worker in the state, adding that the workforce must be ready to work for the salaries they earn. He emphasised that inasmuch as the state government had agreed to pay the demanded N18, 000 minimum wages by the organised labour, the workers should be able to work for their salaries. It would be recalled that the media recently reported that the state government sacked 5000 workers from its employees for alleged falsification of results, doctored age, and irregular certificates.
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