Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has said the state government will pay salary only to workers not on strike from the little monthly allocation that came from Abuja.

He also opined that embarking on strike was not the solution to the poor resources available to the government that had led to irregular payment of salary in the last few months.

‎The governor stated this while featuring on an interview programme on the state-owned radio and television stations in Ado Ekiti.

The organised labour on Thursday began an indefinite strike to press home the demand for the outstanding five months salaries of workers among other issues.

Fayose complained that the state was handicapped by the continuous slide in statutory allocations coming to the state and the general economic recession in the country.

“For the April allocation shared in May, we got N752m, while our wage bill is N2.6b monthly. The previous month we got a little over N1 billion and that has been the trend since last year. We have had to combine two monthly allocations to be able to pay a month salary, but since the beginning of this year, it is that three allocations are not even enough to pay a month salary.

“When you compare what we got from January to May 2015 and what we got in the same period this year, we have a shortfall of over N6 billion. ‎Some are talking about our internally generated revenue, there is nothing to hide. All the records are there for all to see and I have always told labour leaders to go and verify. The highest we have recorded is N302 million a month. There was a month we had N181 million.

“Since I assumed office, every month the allocation paper comes from Abuja, a committee made up of labour leaders and other stakeholders has been the one sharing whatever comes among all sectors. If I am not hiding anything from labour leaders and workers, I expect them to understand. I feel their pain, but there is limit to what I can do in this type of situation.

“Workers at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital under the auspices of JOHESU have written that they are not on strike and people like that will be paid from what came from Abuja. Since I have no power to stop workers from going on strike, I wish them well, but we need to understand what the situation is like.

“They cannot say that I have not consistently been alerting Nigerians since late last year that a time like this is coming. In fact, the next allocation may be smaller than the one we are complaining about now,” he stated.

The governor claimed the economic situation of th‎e state became worse by the indiscriminate borrowing the immediate past administration of Dr. Kayode Fayemi embarked upon.

“The N25bn they raised from the capital market, the nearly N30bn commercial loans, the UBEC, water scheme, fertilizer and other loans they incurred, led to the deduction of about N1b from our allocations monthly. Where were the labour and their leaders when t‎hey were borrowing all these monies? I reiterate again that no administration should be allowed to borrow beyond its tenure,” he added.

On the staff audit conducted by the government last year, he stated that 315 ghost workers were detected through the exercise and that the report would soon be made public.

Source: http://punchng.com/61297-2/

This fat mouth governor and his analogy some times amazes me if Ekiti people are truly as educated as they make people believe. Imagine a governor that has refused to pay his workers instead of apologising rather he is busy behaving as if he his a dictator ! !!

I stii cannot understand how someone can survive for five months without salary. Nigerians are truly rugged!

Hmmm

234GT:
I stii cannot understand how someone can survive for five months without salary. Nigerians are truly rugged!

Kwara states owe workers' minimum of 6months salary. I think workers need to go on strike here too.

Fayose! Kwantinue...endless stupidity. Pls read and comment on this thread; www.nairaland.com/3130196/exploitation-within-nurtw-union-oppressive

He has to remove local government. He refuse to do so.

That is why the people are striking. Because the people don't feel save. By removing local government, the people would feel more save

No money, yet you sit by the roadside dishing soup inside plates to win admiration of the poor ekitians instead of being in brainstorming sessions on how to create wealth for your state via new sources of IGR.

Oloriburuku governor,na to cut pomo,chop ewa agonyi him sabi Abeg pay this people dia salary jor

Fayose is like a Father who beats his child when he steals, but goes behind to steal meat from the pot of soup. With all your gra-gra and fastness in judging and condemning others, you are still worse than those u condemn.

fayose normally people should pay for this but for patriotism...

The farming period has just started, use ur security votes, and the ur salary and allowances to set up a 500 heactres tomatoes greenhouse in 3 months ur state will have enough money to pay workers


It's not rocket science.. .. . Don't bother thanking me

I wonder what this man really takes Ekiti people for? I'm very sure Fayose was happy when NLC went on strike at the federal level,because to him that will help paint Buhari's govt as incompetent, he never did anything to stop his workers from doing so, like other states did to their workers is a way best known to them. Karma is a bitch that f**ks anyone, now is your mess now, just deal with it and stop given empty threats. Continue to govern your proposed airport and flyover, why you leave people who voted you die of hunger, foolish bigot!

This tout of a governor is an hypocrite.
Some people's role model.
Anyways, karma don dey give him BJ
Deal with it

Does it mean he is also owing himself 5mnth salary?
Or has he been paying himself and the state assembly their full entitlement?