The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Ekiti State, has called on the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to urgently charge the
arrested Commissioner for Finance, Toyin Ojo, and Accountant General of
the State,
Mrs. Yemisi Owolabi, to court if indeed it has anything
against them.
The state Chairman of NLC, Ade Adesanimi, said the anti-graft’s
continued detention of the commissioners is delaying the payment of
salaries to the hungry workers in the state. He said this yesterday
during the celebration of World Teachers Day, organised with fanfare for
teachers in the state by Governor Ayodele Fayose.
The event was held at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti
State capital. Recall that the EFCC on September 28, picked up the two
commissioners while Governor Fayose was declaring his ambition for
president in Abuja. The EFCC had said it arrested them after they failed
to honour prior invitations extended to them on the need to explain an
alleged misuse of the Paris Club loan refund. Represented by his
Vice-Chairman, Gbenga Akosile, Adesanmi said:
“If the EFCC has anything against them, they should charge the
commissioners to court so they can come home and pay us our salaries. We
are currently hungry and we want to collect the little that we are
entitled to now. The actions and the inactions of politicians are
having a toll on workers in Ekiti.” Speaker of Ekiti Assembly, Kola
Oluwawole also condemned EFCC’s arrest of the commissioners, describing
it as barbaric, dictatorial, inhuman and illegal. He called for their
urgent release by EFCC. Speaking at the event, Fayose commended the
teachers’ efforts in getting the state to come tops in NECO for two
consecutive times. He announced automatic promotion to level 15 for all
level 14 graduate primary school teachers in the state and car gifts
with a weeklong holiday in London or Dubai for all best teachers in the
category of primary and secondary school and the tutor general of the
state.
---OyeVibes.
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