Ekiti sacks over 2, 000 workers appointed by Fayose – TheNigerialawyer

Ekiti State Government has declared as null and void, the
appointment of over 2000 workers employed into the state workforce
by former Governor Ayodele Fayose after the July 2018 Ekiti
Governorship Election.

Commissioner for Information, Muyiwa Olumilua, who said the
state government decision which sacked the workers followed
submission of the Report of the Committee set up by the state
government to review the irregular appointments made into the
Public Service between 2014 and 2018.

The over 2000 workers were employed after Fayose’s Peoples
Democratic Party lost the governorship election to the All
Progressives Congress.

Olumilua, who addressed journalists on Thursday on the outcome
of Wednesday’s State Executive Council meeting, said the affected
workers, who had been warned earlier against participation in
Fayose’s last minute appointment exercise, could participate in the
next recruitment.

He said that the governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, had directed the
Head of Service, Ayodeji Ajayi, “to collate all available vacancies
in the civil service, with the overhead implications to enable the
state government to prepare to recruit suitable and qualified Ekiti
citizens into the public service, irrespective of the party
affiliations”.

Olumilua, who reeled out reprieve for some workers, said
officers dismissed during Fayose’s tenure in ministries of Justice;
Environment; and Works; State Internal Revenue; Hospital Management
Board; Teaching Service Commission; and SUBEB should go to the
Office of Establishment to ascertain their current status.

He added, “The 169 officers recruited in 2014 but had their
appointments terminated by the Fayose administration shall be
considered for reabsorption by the House of Assembly Service
Commission but on a case-by-case basis.

“The officers reinstated into the Local Government Service
Commission between October 16th 2014, and October 15th 2018, are to
be reabsorbed by the relevant personnel boards and migrated to
biometric payroll with immediate effect.

“All 272 officers employed by the Fayose administration, who are
still on manual payroll, shall be considered for absorption into
the civil service but on case-by-case basis,” he said.

The Chairman, Trade Union Congress, Sola Adigun, who said the
labour union would meet the Head of Service on clarification on
this issue, added “We will hold Fayemi by his words. He had said
there would be no vendetta or victimization.

“We plead for mercy on behalf of these workers. The punishment
for the mistakes of the past government should not be meted on
these innocent Ekiti people. We want government to look into the
plight of these workers,” Adigun said.

But Fayose, who said Fayemi administration’s decision to sack
the workers was wickedness and political vendetta promoted to the
peak, urged victims of the action “to place their hope in God and
enforce their rights to seek redress in the court of law.”

Fayose’s spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, said in a statement that
“Fayemi had only succeeded in writing his name in the history books
of Ekiti as one who inflicts pains and sorrow on the people”.

He said, “Fayemi has only demonstrated the wickedness in his
heart by sacking Ekiti sons and daughters who were duly employed by
the state government. It will be on record that the PDP government
of Fayose gave jobs to over 2,000 unemployed youths in Ekiti while
the APC government of Fayemi sacked them”.

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