Fayose promises not to sack workers despite drop in allocation to Ekiti state

Ekiti Governor Ayodele Fayose, has said his administration will not sack any worker in the state despite the drop in funds from the federation account..

This was contained in a statement by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi. The governor, who started a sensitization tour of local governments on the financial situation of the state, said sacking workers was not the solution to the problem.

''A comparative analysis of the allocations to local governments in Ekiti between January to October 2014 and the same period this year would clearly explain what I am talking about,'' he said. ''During that period in 2014, the local governments got over N22 billion, while they were given N15 billion for the same period this year. A shortfall of over N5 billion. What even came in last month was terrible. We therefore decided to pay primary school teachers in September and paid local government workers in October. Now, the issue is should we now skip a month and pay all workers at once or keep rotating the payment of salaries among different categories of workers? You are the ones to decide.''