Gomina Fayemi's Hatred For Ekiti Teachers

On Saturday, October 5, 2013, the World Teachers Day was celebrated worldwide. Instead of attending the World Teachers Day celebration in Ado-Ekiti, Gomina Fayemi further demonstrated his contempt for the teachers by choosing to travel to UK to go and escort his godfather, Sen Bola Tinubu back to Nigeria.

That same day too, Fayemi elder sister, Mrs Oloro who is the Chairman, Governing Council of College of Health Tech, Ijero-Ekiti was having her child's wedding in Akure but to Gomina Fayemi, escorting Tinubu back to Nigeria was more important than attending his cousin's wedding.

Note that Governors Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State were in their respective States, attending the World Teachers Day celebration.

It is on record that since he became governor, Gomina Fayemi has never attended the World Teachers Day in person.

In 2011, he sent his deputy while he cancelled that of 2012 even though the teachers ignored him and celebrated the 2012 World Teachers Day in Ado-Ekiti, contrary to the state government’s directive that the annual celebration should be cancelled.

#‎Diary Of Fayemi's Contempt for World Teachers Day#

1. Ekiti teachers ignore gov’s order, hold World Teachers Day

October 6, 2012 • By Our Reporter
From CHARLES ADEGBITE, Ado-Ekiti

Teachers in Ekiti State yesterday celebrated the 2012 World Teachers Day in Ado-Ekiti, contrary to the state government’s directive that the annual celebration should be cancelled. The teachers, under the aegis of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), gathered at their state secretariat, where they raised series of sarcastic songs to deride the Governor Kayode Fayemi administration, who they perceived as anti-teachers.

Their anger against the government began to manifest on Thursday, when the Commissioner for Education, Dr. Mrs. Eniola Ajayi, held a stakeholders meeting with some selected teachers at Olaoluwa Muslim Grammar School, Ado Ekiti, who were called to ruminate on woeful performances of students in internal and external examinations in recent times.

The Ministry of Education later announced on state radio and television that the event had been cancelled. This announcement irked the entire teachers populace and forced them to start getting set for war. While addressing journalists on this development, the NUT Chairman in the state, Com Kayode Akosile, described the government’s directive as embarrassing, shocking and a declaration of war on Ekiti teachers. He said Ekiti teachers had been having a robust relationship with the government until they refused to write the test prescribed by the state government tagged Teachers Development Needs Assessment (TDNA), meant to examine the competency of his members.

He said the teachers met the first unexpected shocker of their lives under Fayemi government, when it cancelled 27 percent peculiar allowance to teachers on the premise that it was about to implement relativity allowance and minimum wage to Ekiti workers. The NUT chairman said that government’s step could only be counter-productive rather than producing the needed remedial step to wipe out decadence in the educational sector.

He said no efforts will be spared to ensure that no teacher is sanctioned for not appearing at his duty post yesterday, insisting: “October 5 had been adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to be Teachers Day. So, I don’t think it should be taken to be an offence if our people decided to hold the celebration.”

2. Protests mar Teachers Day celebration in Ekiti

October 06, 2011 at 1:00 am in news
BY GBENGA ARIYIBI
ADO-EKITI—Protests, Wednesday, marred the celebration of this year’s World Teachers Day in Ekiti State, as members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, the umbrella body for teachers, refused to participate in the match past to commemorate the occasion.
The well attended ceremony took place at the Sport Arena of the Christ School, Ado Ekiti where the Deputy-Governor of the state, Mrs Funmilayo Adunni Olayinka stood in for the state governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi.

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The drama in Ekiti is yet to begin. But the truth of the matter is that, no Lagosian and foreigner can win the real Ekiti people in any battle. They will eventually leave. It does not matter whether you were born in Ekiti, once you are raised from outside, you are a bloody outsider. Ekiti people should learn how not to vote for people who don't reside in the state.

tpacalipse: The drama in Ekiti is yet to begin. But the truth of the matter is that, no Lagosian and foreigner can win the real Ekiti people in any battle. They will eventually leave. It does not matter whether you were born in Ekiti, once you are raised from outside, you are a bloody outsider. Ekiti people should learn how not to vote for people who don't reside in the state.

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