The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has accused the immediate past Governor of the State, Ayodele Fayose of mismanaging the State's N18 billion Paris club refund.
The Governor made the allegation on Sunday in Ado Ekiti Fayemi spoke in Ado Ekiti on Sunday while appearing on the December edition of a programme tagged: ‘Meet your Governor’, expressed worries over how Fayose, who owed between four and eight months salary and pension arrears, could not defray the backlog of workers’ benefit with such humongous amount of money but rather preferred to divert it for other use.
“Let those making the allegation came with verifiable proofs to substantiate their claim. Let them come with evidence. “I have not collected any money in the fashion of road intervention or Paris club refund. Governor Fayose had the opportunity of paying bulk of these backlog of salaries and pensions. He collected a sum of N18b out of the N21.5b due to Ekiti in the fund, so what is left for Ekiti is just N3.5b which can’t pay a month if we add the overhead costs of subvented institutions.
“As we speak, we are doing a lot of cleansing and that had reduced the monthly pay to workers to N2.1b. Those not properly employed had been left out until they provide evidence. The medical workers that were employed on consequential ground had been reabsorbed.
“I decided to delay appointment of politicians into government for me to be able to pay our workers. With this, Ekiti can now know who is the real and honest friend of the masses.
“I don’t want to do media trial for anyone, so I have hired the services of a renowned audit firm to look into our finances and the forensic state’s accounts will be published during our 100 days in office in January, 2019”, he said.
