The All Progressives Congress
(APC) in Ekiti State has accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of alleged plot to
defraud the state with his plan to buy Christmas cloths for 10,000 children
across the state.
It said the governor’s plan is an
addition to his previous unsolicited show of love for the masses through which
public funds were “fraudulently” spent on cloths with more than half of the
actual cost ending in private pockets.
Fayose had announced that he
would buy Christmas cloths for no fewer than 10,000 children as a mark of
showing Ekiti children love to partake in the sharing of the state’s wealth.
But in a statement in Ado-Ekiti
by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the party scoffed at the
governor’s plan, noting that it was “another fraudulent game to loot the
treasury”.
The statement said: “It is sheer
greed, wickedness and callous insensitivity to Ekiti people’s plights for
Fayose to refuse to address doctors’ strike in the public hospitals over unpaid
salaries while other workers remain unpaid for between six and nine months but
he is planning and talking of buying Chrismas clothes for 10,000 Ekiti children
just because he wants to make money from such unsolicited show of love while
tens of hundreds of Ekiti indigenes, old and young, are dying in Ekiti
hospitals for lack of medical services as a result of the governor’s
insensitivity to the immediate needs of our people over non-payment of doctors
and civil servants’ salaries and pensioners.”
Accusing the governor of greed
and selfishness in his alleged deliberate deceit to corner the state’s
resources while his political appointees and workers are owed backlog of salary
arrears, Olatunbosun said:
“From our observation of Fayose’s
greed and callousness, he is behaving as if he will not exist tomorrow and so
he does not owe anybody anything and so does not care about what becomes of his
image or what happens to the lives of the people he leads.
“It is high time Ekiti people,
workers and labour leaders opened their eyes and minds to Fayose’s deliberate
deceits before majority of our people end in their early graves.
“Fayose should pay the salaries,
pensions and gratuities of the parents of those children he is planning to buy
Christmas cloths for to allow them perform their parental roles instead of the
governor buying cheap cloths at exorbitant costs, more than half of which will
end up in private pocket as we had during NULGE and Teachers’ Day celebrations.
“The workers and pensioners know
their responsibilities as parents to their children if the eight to nine months
salary and pensions arrears are paid.
“The education, health and the
growth of Ekiti children are suffering under Fayose’s draconian tax policy
whereby children in nursery and primary schools pay terminal taxes in schools
in empty stomachs and their parents not receiving their salaries while the
governor and his family are living the life of opulence after receiving his
monthly N300m security vote and another monthly N90m called ‘Sundry Expenses’
after cornering all government’s contracts to the exclusive privilege of his
immediate family members who receive quality healh care services abroad while
callously leaving Ekiti people to die in hospitals that have no drugs and where
medical workers receive no salary for several months.”
Berating the governor for always
taking Ekiti people for fools in his alleged fraudulent administrative style to
cheat the people, Olatunbosun explained:
“The Christmas cloth project,
like Fayose’s failed stomach infrastructure, is another deceit to siphon public
funds to his private pocket at the expense of Ekiti people, particularly the
workers, pensioners and the children that are now being taxed by Fayose’s
administration while their patents at the same time remain unpaid for nine
months, yet the governor at the same time wants the people to see him as the
friend of the masses after inflicting deliberate pains that will swell his
pocket while the people, including his commissioners and Assembly members
suffer.”
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