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Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has again appealed to workers in the state to call off their strike.
Fayose, also clarified the comment he made, where he said he was also on strike.

Fayose, in a state-wide broadcast at the weekend, expressed sadness at his inability to pay Ekiti civil servants who have been on strike for two weeks.


“I want to thank you for your patience, endurance so far in the face of this strike and our financial challenges,” he said.

“It is rather unfortunate that we are in this kind of situation, I want you to remember that I have always made you proud, I have always paid wages, salaries on the 22nd /23rd of every month. I have always done that which you can always remember, the effort put in place by my administration during the first tenure.

“I love you, it’s not my joy; it’s not my pleasure that you should continue on strike. It is not going to be in my interest for you to ask me for fish and I will give you stone, what I don’t have, I can’t give. I plead with you to see reasons and come back.

“Some people said Fayose claims he is on strike, yes, I said so jocularly and you know it because you made me a comrade and it is in the character of comrades to strike and jokingly I said to you, to identify with you, that I am equally on strike.


“Don’t make a political statement out if it, what is important is the issue, the problem and we must deal with it, it is a different ball game if I have the money and I am not giving you. I plead with you to come back, I am still the same man you know. I will never sit on this seat and make you suffer”‎, he said.

Fayose further accused his predecessor, Kayode Fayemi, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of putting the state in the current situation.

“The APC should close their face in shame, how can you rule for four years and you destroy a state, you destroy the whole economy of that state for 20 years?” he said.

“I am not one governor that will come and lie to you, as it is the state is in financial mess. It is not easy for this government financially and I have always said this, I did not hide it from you.

“I went round the local government with the labour leaders in July and we all agreed that we should use two allocations to pay one salary. If you are using two months to pay one starting from September/October, we used September/October to pay September, we used November/December to pay October, we used January/February to pay November, we used March/April to pay December.

“The issue now is that as we were going on that journey, when we got to February the allocation dipped further, it was now ending in using three months allocation to pay one month salary, that made it impossible for us to pay certain levels of deductions in December. The question to ask the labour leaders is why did you wait till now to talk about these issues if you were not part of it.

“We need certain level of integrity to show that we are leaders of the people than to back out when we actually know we are part of it. What are the issues? What are the problems in Ekiti? They are two. The first problem is the dwindling economy, the money coming from Abuja is no longer coming, Ekiti earns about the least in Nigeria and secondly the debt profile of Ekiti as a result of mal-administration by the last administration where almost N1.2 billion is deducted from source.

“Parents are generally emotional, passionate about their children particularly their female wards but sometimes you are helpless as a father. Your daughter will be at home, she cannot go to school but you are helpless and I still want you to continue praying for Nigeria because in the next three months it may get tougher.

“It’s not about the governor, it’s about all of us, it is a selective solution we must look for. I am prepared to serve you, I am prepared to give my best, let us not be beclouded by our pains not to see the actual facts surrounding this state. Don’t let anybody come in in the name of APC to deceive you. They have plunged this state into trouble, why should they take money beyond their administration?

“The internally generated revenue of Ekiti is collected from various areas by 13 banks and on the 1st and 2nd of every new month, they sweep it into one bank and this is done electronically. The governor cannot say help me remove this, help me remove that. No responsible governor or government will say bank, help me manipulate, because of how much? The size of the state determines your IGR, can you take water out of a dry toilet roll?

“Can you push the people beyond what they can do? I don’t want to be here fooling Ekiti people, telling them the IGR is 600 million/700 million for reasons of arrogance and pride. No! These things are done electronically, there is freedom of information, you can Google it.

“You can go to accountant-general’s office, if she does not avail you with the documents you want please call on me, let me know. I will get her to give you those documents, she is a civil servant, I don’t want anybody to deceive you. I never diverted your money, what will I do with it?

“I want a name, I don’t want money, money is momentary, money has got wings, it can fly.”

http://dailypost.ng/2016/06/11/i-wish-to-pay-your-salaries-but-ekiti-is-broke-fayose-begs-workers/?utm_source=snap_dp1&utm_medium=twitter

Pavarottii:
Very soon only Rivers, Lagos, Delta, Kaduna and Akwa Ibom that will be able to pay salaries.

Edo too

McGibson:
I ain't no ghost worker. infact almost all my colleagues has not received their salary. so they better check what they saw or it might be from our individual banks. I called up to 10 persons now and they all have not gotten alert.

Your fellow ghost workers??

cktheluckyman:
BTW these properties cannot be freezed by the orders of a lagos high court as there are outside its jurisdiction

You did not see the word FEDERAL HIGH COURT. Does eating of yam now blind people

The Fulani kills hundreds and you protest against them in such a small number? Are you ready?

She never believed. She now needs to believe. She should read the book of Job everyday and fear God and believe. I hope the comfort of life is not deceiving her? I pray for her though..

In times past, this strike would have shut up oil price in the international market. Not anymore. Oil price is stubbornly going down (South) to the oyel owners

magicminister:
[b]God help Nigerians!

First of all, even if a lady is buck naked and laying down on your bed, he "No" should be final.
Even if the tip of your peniss is in her vagina and she says no, you should pull out immediately.
There is no justification for rape whatsoever.

When i was in school, i witnessed a girl get raped. I was in my 3rd year while she was in her first year.
She was dressed decently and looking well mannered but her only crime was visiting her so called "boy friend".
I heard her screaming and begging from outside and i tried to intervene by banging on the door severally.
The boy totally ignored me... Then i summoned his neigbors and we got the door open. To my utter dismay, it was two boys that raped this girl and she was a virgin..... The shock on the girl's face haunted me for weeks.,, she was totally numb and couldn't utter a word... just tears!!!....

THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR RAPE.
A RAPIST IS A RAPIST. IF YOU LIKE WEAR HIJAB OR DRESS LIKE A NUN, HE WILL STILL RAPE.
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If dressing modestly is a preventive measure for rape, then why do we still have cases of girls covered in hijab getting raped?
why do we have cases of men raping innocent children??
why do we have cases of pregnant women getting raped??

whoever this journalist is, i strongly recommend that he gets fired.
Instead of pushing for a stiffer penalty for convicted rapist, he is there telling women how to dress and what to do with their bodies....

How did the tip of my penis get to her vagina? Forcefully? Or she cooperated and at the point of penetration she suddenly says NO and at that point I should withdraw? Lecture me bro

Give Ese a counnter narrative, Take her to Banana Island, Bonny Island or somewhere fanciful. She will wish Yunusa were dead...

So they had to snap him while working just to show us or what?

WhatOnEarth:
Moimoi na moimoi.
Be proud of your own not.
BTW what is the pidgin English name of salad?

menemene

Tosdam:
Nairalanders, abeg, what's the English name of moimoi?

Bean Burger

Sijo01:
mogbe!!!

Where are the shange chanters? Your pay master is really working.

The CHANGE is that your Hero didnt have the balls to take tough decisions....

No wonder yam dey cost for market. GEJ goats don chop all our yams....

At least he is not standing at the LAST ROW...

rozayx5:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/nnpc-blames-fuel-scarcity-on-vandals-unscrupulous-oil-marketers/

lalasticlala


the blame game begins

E don tey wey yansh dey back

TellingItAsItIs:
Nigerians dont ask questions.
Do yall even know the origin of "black friday".
I read somewhere that fridays were the days black slaves were sold by the white slavemasters at the cheapest rate.
"Black friday" was then celebrated as a day to purchase cheap "commodities".
Its a babaric holiday likened to celebrating "thanksgiving"
Africans are really stupid for making a holiday of this shameful history.
Read a book y'all,learn history.
Ignorance is an epidemic

The day is not a holiday anywhere...

Well, well well no Northerner in the board. if to say na Northerners full am now, Wailers no go let us hear word.

I just want to know if Obama will be conveyed in the same vehicle. Will the Secret Service allow it? Just my thought.

The way I understand the judgment is that the April election is annulled. How can Wike still be the Governor if the result of that election is cancelled? Upon which election is he the governor even if he intends to appeal.

gnykelly:
what can code do I need to press to get 1GB

*229*2*7#

Markachi666:
I doubt if BlackBerry bis works on computer?

Blackberry BIS works on Computer. That is what I am using. Been using it for 2 years now.

So no one in the Judiciary is entitled to use siren?

Osisie:
Light never stable o

Na you no stable

BiafranNigerian:
I see everything wrong with the assertion that a Nigerian President has to use government positions to reward his good friends before they suffered together.

This is the clear definition of Nepotism.

So, if I am to become President, I will only give positions to my friends within my political zones because we suffered together.

And if everyone does that, where this geographical expression head to ? Common-sense is truly not common.

Buhari, your brain is your skull, locate it and use it.

...and just suppose the good ones happen to be his friends, is that still nepotism?

What say you Wailing Wailers

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Stay positive brother. My wife has a 2.1 in same Microbiology and hasn't been able to get a job since graduating in 2001. The system is messed up. She found solace in baking and catering...

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THANKS

17 no more no less

If just 10% of vehicle owners decide to buy a bicycle and ride to work for one month petroleum marketers will be in trouble

I found a way round the security issue. I defaced the last 4 digits on my ATM card. The number is known only to me and serves as my security code. Yes the card still works on ATMs