The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State on Thursday condemned “the gale of termination of appointments of workers” by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led administration.
APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, in a statement alleged that not less than 700 local government workers had been pencilled down for sack.
Titled: “Sack of Ekiti Workers, Beginning of Stomach Infrastructure ‘Dividend’”, APC noted that Ekiti workers had now realised that they were in for hard times under the PDP government that promised so much but had delivered little.
APC also recalled the sack of 180 civil servants and permanent secretaries calling it “an evidence of the definition of stomach infrastructure espoused by Fayose’s deceptive administration to dehumanise and celebrate poverty in Ekiti State.”
The opposition party also berated the leader of the PDP faction in the House of Assembly, Dele Olugbemi’s role in the workers’ dismissal.
Olatunbosun said the affected workers were duly employed by the House of Assembly Service Commission last April with their conditions of service stated.
APC said the disengagement announced immediately after the New Year’s interdenominational service did not follow Civil Service rules, adding that Olugbemi had no powers to sack employees of the House of Assembly Service Commission, even if he were to be the authentic Speaker.
Olatunbosun said: “How can someone with genuine love of his people behave in a manner suggestive that he is an enemy of the people he professes to love?
“Fayose had, in a similar manner, reversed the appointments of eight permanent secretaries appointed by former Governor Kayode Fayemi while he also sacked another seven perceived as loyal to the former governor.
“He had similarly annulled the promotion of about 5,000 civil servants barely three weeks after assuming office.
“Eight hundred peace corps members and over 300 staff of the State Traffic Management Agency were sacked. He stopped the N10, 000 monthly allowance to about 5,000 unemployed youths working as volunteers.
“The man who said he is a friend of the vulnerable has also stopped the social security scheme where 20,000 Ekiti elders were paid N5,000 monthly to keep body and soul together.
“To replace this life-lifting scheme, Fayose chose a seasonal stomach infrastructure scheme that features a handful of Ekiti people queuing up in the scorching sun for two congos of rice, a quarter of a litre of palm oil and a pigeon-sized fowl for Christmas.
“He deceived Ekiti people that he won’t live in the new Government House because he can’t be living in a well-lit lodge while the rest Ekiti people live in the dark whereas he and his wife live in the edifice with 24-hour electricity supply while the state is in darkness.”
Olatunbosun claimed that the governor, instead of empowering Ekiti contractors and artisans as he promised during his campaigns, all the contracts awarded so far were given to foreigners and his brothers.
But the PDP State Secretary, Tope Aluko, said the workers’ appointment did not undergo due process.
Aluko accused the opposition of mischief when it knew full well that its (APC) administration engaged the sacked employees “who were without any appointment letters” only to deceive the people in a bid to score political goals.
“It is unfortunate that the APC, in its shallow mentality, could think that such mysterious employment and appointment could stand in a rational society such as ours in Ekiti State.
“It is only an irresponsible government that will abandon its unemployed youths for three years before giving out jobs without employment letters or follow any known due process in the employment of people into the Ekiti State public service”.
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