Its Callous To Deny Workers September Pay, APC Tells Fayose The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has expressed shock over Governor Ayodele Fayoses media chat statement that Ekiti State workers should forget their September salary on the basis that it was former Governor Kayode Fayemi who owed them. The party also reacted to Fayoses aide, Lere Olayinka, who said former Governor Kayode Fayemi lied on his claims in his media chat on Adaba FM on the debt profile of the state and projects execution during his administration that put Ekiti State ahead of its peers in the country. The Publicity Secretary of the APC, Taiwo Olatunbosun ,described Fayoses refusal to pay workers salary as wicked, callous and insensitive to come from a governor to workers who are the engine room of government policy and programme. He said records would show Ekiti people the debts profile of Ekiti State during Fayemis administration, adding that the experience of Ekiti people in Fayoses hand during Christmas would convince the people who is a liar between the two leaders. There is no need to waste precious time on an internet rat and a pathological liar like Lere Olayinka. The party noted that since the federal allocations are paid in arrears, it was incumbent upon Fayose to pay September salary with September federal allocation that he collected in October after Fayemi had left. It was Fayose as Governor-Elect who went to harass the banks that had overdraft arrangement with the Fayemi administration to stop granting such facilities to Fayemi even though it is the same facility Fayose is currently using to pay salaries as admitted in his media chat. We wish to remind Governor Fayose that even if it was Fayemi that did not pay September salary, government is a continuum and whoever assumes office inherits both assets and liabilities of that state. It is therefore a misnomer for Governor Fayose to declare in a heartless manner on state radio and television that Ekiti workers should forget September salary, Olatubosun said. He added that Fayoses declaration had confirmed speculations and fears that he had misapplied the September salary amounting to over N1. 5 billion. If he paid December salary with November allocation that he received in December, what stopped him from paying September salary with September allocation that he received in October? Why skipping September salary only to pay October salary with Septembers allocation? What is he planning to do with the one month salary that is outstanding now and which allocation he had already collected? Olatunbosun queried. He said it bore no integrity for the governor to renege on his pre-election campaign promises which he repeated at his inauguration that he would pay all outstanding salaries and emoluments of workers on 21st of every month. Governor Fayose tricked Ekiti people that apart from using his contacts in Abuja to get money released to the state, he will also attract Federal projects. While he has received about N22 billion from Abuja so far out of which he finds it difficult to pay Ekiti workers September salary, there is no mention of any project for Ekiti State in the 2015 budget, neither is any Ekiti road among the recently approved roads by the Federal Executive Council, Olatubosun said, adding that the governor had no excuse for failure to pay September salary after collecting the federal allocations up-to-date. Ekiti workers should demand for their September salary from Fayose who has received an up-to-date FAAC Allocation of Ekiti State. Taiwo Olatunbosun Publicity Secretary. December 28, 2014.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 21:39:27 +0000
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