Ado Ekiti — EKITI State Government and
governor-elect, Ayodele Fayose, yesterday, traded
words over alleged diversion of workers’ salaries
to pay government contractors.

While Fayose claimed Governor Kayode Fayemi
was diverting workers’ salaries to pay
contractors, Fayemi on his part, said he knew
nothing about such diversion because government
would not give priority to contractors over
workers.

Fayose in a statement by his Chief Press
Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, in Ado Ekiti, claimed
workers in the state were being made to suffer
unjustly as the state government was diverting
funds meant to pay their salaries for the payment
of contractors and severance allowance political
appointees by Fayemi.

According to the statement: ‘’The governor does
not need to rob Peter to pay Paul. He owes
workers in the state backlog of salary arrears and
he has not paid them. Instead of paying workers,
the administration is focusing on paying
government contractors. The word of God says a
labourer is worth his wages and those who are
working for the state must not be denied their
dues.

“The government must not waste further time in
paying these hapless workers and save their
families from hunger. If the government is using
statutory allocations and other revenue to pay
contractors and the severance benefit of the
governor’s appointees, then what stops the state
from paying workers?

Reacting through the Commissioner for
Information, Tayo Ekundayo, Fayemi said it was
not aware of any contractor being given top
priority insisting that the government would
ensure that it paid according to availability of
funds.
According to him, “We have said it several times
that we have paucity of funds because of
dwindling money from the Federal Government.
Beside, the arrangement we had with banks to
pay salaries was thwarted by the Peoples
Democratic Party. But I can assure you that we
will pay according to the available funds at our
disposal.”

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