Promotion of Ekiti15,000 workers a ruse ----APC
(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State has denied claims by Governor Ayodele Fayose that he has promoted 15,000 workers in the state civil service as part of the end of the year package for civil servants.
It also denied claim by the governor that workers were paid
two months salaries, Christmas bonus and other allowances.
In the last few days, news was all over the media space that
Fayose had paid two months salaries and Christmas bonus, including promotion of
15,000 workers and implementation of promotion arrears approved few years back
as part of welfare scheme for workers.
But APC dismissed the reports as a ruse, saying that no
single worker was promoted "as at the time of writing this press release."
In a statement by the Publicity Secretary, Taiwo
Olatunbosun, the party said it had been discovered that the governor was
"just trying to be himself as an unconscionable liar" in his
promotion and two months salary payment claims.
He explained: "As at the time of writing this press
release, no single worker has received any letter of promotion.
"At best, what the governor has done is a promise of
promotion to the Labour leaders he assembled at the dilapidated Ikogosi Resort
where he begged them to help him mobilise workers to vote for his candidate in
the 2018 governorship election with the promise of mass promotion for workers.
"The promise followed similar other one during his
governorship campaigns when he asked Ekiti youths to submit their credentials to
his campaign office for immediate mass employment if they voted for him.
"But after winning the election, the credentials of the
youth found their way to groundnut and roasted plantain sellers, and up till
now, none of them has been employed."
Olatunbosun added that investigations from Ekiti State Civil
Service indicated that no single promotion letter had been issued from the
office elevating any worker.
He also debunked reports that Ekiti workers were paid two
months salaries, explaining that what the governor did was his usual alleged
fraudulent practice to confuse and deceive the people.
He explained: "Fayose never paid two months salaries.
What he did was that he paid just one salary for two different months.
"For instance, he paid December salary to a set of
workers while he paid July salary to another set, making it just one month
salary to all the workers so far paid, but the governor has been fraudulently
claiming that he had paid two months salaries."
Olatunbosun added that what Fayose did was to gamble with
the workers again to exploit them and deceive the public for favour in the next
governorship election, noting that the governor's anti-worker policy did not
support his present pro-worker stance.
He explained: "On assumption of office, Fayose cancelled
all the promotions approved by former Governor Kayode Fayemi, while he also
reversed the appointments of nine permanent secretaries made by Fayemi, some of
whom had since retired in frustration.
"Morale is at its lowest in the top echelon of the
civil service, as permanent secretaries are no longer appointed on merit but
through balloting system that is fraught with fraud whereby the least qualified
candidates, who are the governor's cronies, may be appointed while against
service rule, Fayose has stopped Executive Secretaries from being appointed
permanent secretaries.
"Besides, we have witnessed mass sack of workers while
salaries and running grants of some categories of workers have been reduced in
several government's institutions, including those in the Ekiti State
University, while the governor increased his own monthly security vote to
N250m.
"Labour unions leaders are regularly victimised and
harassed, even as morale is at present at the lowest among the work force while
Fayose has also cancelled all local and overseas capacity development training
programmes."
Olatunbosun urged workers to demand for their wages, saying
"workers and indeed Nigerians are no longer fooled by Fayose's lies."
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