We’ve no plan to sack workers –Ekiti govt

Ekiti State Government  has denied any plan to sack civil servants in the state.
This is contrary to rumours making the rounds in the state that the Ayo Fayose-led administration was planning to  achieve this through its proposed plan to reduce the state parastatals.

Dismissing the reports as falsehood being peddled by the opposition, All Progressives Congress (APC), Special Assistant to the state governor on Public Communications and News Media, Mr. Lere Olayinka, yesterday in Ado-Ekiti, 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 it did not indicate that some workers would be sacked.
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.