Ekiti sacks 5,000 council workers over alleged certificate forgery
Monday, 18 July 2011 00:00 From Muyiwa Adeyemi, Ado-Ekiti News - National
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EKITI State government has dismissed 5,000 local council workers for age falsification and declaration of false credentials.

Workers in all the 16 councils from various cadres were affected by the action of the state. Their names were placed on the notice boards in the council’s secretariats last Friday to surrender all public property in their care to the relevant authorities and stop parading themselves as officials of the councils.

It was learnt that the sacked workers were accused by the state government of alleged falsification of their age, academic certificates, among others.

In an interview in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, Chairman of the Local Government Service Commission, Aderemi Ajayi, said the names of the affected workers had been removed from the July salary vouchers of their councils.

Ajayi explained that the dismissed workers were said to have gained employment using fake certificates and falsified birth certificates.

He explained that the lists of the affected personnel were compiled by a verification committee set up by Governor Kayode Fayemi to look into the activities of the councils in the state.

“Those affected gained employment into the local government service through fake certificates and those that ought to have retired but refused to do so by continually falsifying their ages.

“The lists of the sacked workers were compiled by a committee set up by the state government and the committee has directed all the local councils in the state to post the names of the affected workers on their respective notice boards as from Friday July 15.

“Their names had been removed from this month’s salary vouchers. They are to complain to the committee if they even have any complaints.

“Although I cannot tell you the exact figure of the affected workers, I can tell you the sack cuts across all the 16 local councils in the state”, Ajayi stated.

One of the affected council officials described the sack as “anti-people and anti-democratic” action by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)-led government in the state.

“The allegations of fake academic certificates and falsification of ages are not true as they are part of efforts by the government to justify the illegal and brazen action”.

The governor had on Monday, July 11, this year, ordered the sack of 27 directors of administration and finance of local councils over alleged failure of promotion examinations.

A whopping 5000?

The almighty Ekiti
I suggest their so called profs be investigated too.

hmm dis na serious oluwole so 5000 people lost their jobs , i wonder what they are going to do with their life now.

5000 sacked council workers= 5000 new narcotics farmers.

It would be a suprise to me if youths in Ekiti start running naked on the streets after having too much 'igbo' to smoke in the next 3-4 months. Smh