NO ONE WILL BE SACKED! FAYOSE AID

Ekiti State Government has denied any
plan to sack civil servants in the state.Special Assistant to the state governor on
Public Communications and News Media,
Mr. Lere Olayinka, yesterday in Ado-
Ekiti, said the report was being peddled
by the opposition, All Progressives
Congress (APC).

He clarified that the state government
was only embarking on the current exercise
of trimming down the number of
ministries in the state to ensure effective
and efficient discharge of duties.Olayinka said: “Workers in the state have
nothing to fear, the ongoing exercise of
trimming the number of ministries is not an
indication that workers are gong to be
sacked.

“The exercise is intended to make the
workers more effective and efficient.
Workers will be deployed in a way to get
the best out of them. “The only set of workers that have issues
to clarify are those that were employed
without due process after the APC lost the
June 21 governorship election.

“The proposal before the state Governor,
Dr. Ayodele Fayose, is the reduction of
the number of ministries and parastatals
to reduce cost of running the government,
so as to be able to provide more basic
amenities for the people.“The planned reduction of ministries and
parastatals is still at the level of
proposal that is yet to be considered by the
governor.

“It is also important to point out that there
is no plan to turn the State Universal Basic
Education Board (SUBEB) to an agency
under the Governor’s Office as being
peddled. “SUBEB is a creation of the Constitution
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and
its funds come directly from the
Universal Basic Education Commission
(UBEC), a Federal Government agency. No
governor can scrap it”, the statement read.