Saturday, December 27, 2014
I Won't Sell Children To Pay Salary, Fayose Tells Ekiti Civil Servants
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The Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, on Friday during his monthly media chat, 'Meet Your Governor', told Ekiti Civil Servant he won't sell Children to pay salary and asked them for more time to pay their September salary.
He said the precarious financial situation of the state would not allow him to pay the salary arrears he inherited from his predecessor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.
The governor said the deductions from the allocation of the state from the Bond sourced by the last administration and commercial loans obtained from banks had adversely affected the state finances.
In his words, the governor said,
"I became governor on October 16 and that is two months and ten days now and I want to state categorically that I have managed resources of the state very well. Now coming here to tell the people that I will pay September salaries, no, no, I will not say that. The salaries I am paying now, I had interface with banks to give me leeway for six months to be able to arrange myself. If anybody is expecting me to pay September salary now, that person is deceiving himself. Where will I get the money from? If somebody was in office four four years and he owed you two months salary arrears and I am in office for two months and I don't owe you from the time I took office, our people should be patient. This government has been in office for just two months now and people are complaining, what are they complaining about? we should not be deceiving ourselves. Oil benchmark used to be 78 dollars but it has now dropped to 62 dollars. Fayose love you all but I will not sell house or children to pay salaries"
He also use the medium to thank the governors of Jigawa, Adamawa and Katsina State for sending him rams and cows as part of their contributions to his "stomach infrastructure" agenda for Christmas celebrations.
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