Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti
state, has clarified his stance on the fate of Ayodele Fayose, his predecessor.
Speaking with state house
correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, Fayemi explained
that there was never a time he said he would probe Fayose.
According to him, reports of such
probe are on the table of anti-graft agencies.
“Well, I am sure I have never
said anything about probe, and I do not say anything about probe. Looking into
books is the duty of any new governor, you need to know what you found in
place, I just talked about visitation panel into the education sector in the
state,” he said.
“There are other sectors in the
state, and it will be remiss of me not to check what we found when we came into
office and share that with the citizens of the state.
“It is just accountability not
probe. I am not EFCC, I am not ICPC, there are institutions that are charged
with the responsibility to do that and its entirely up to them if they want to
probe the governor or not.
“It is not my business, I leave
Fayose to God, I have said that before.’’
Fayose is currently being
prosecuted by the EFCC over an 11-count charge of alleged conspiracy and money
laundering.
Speaking on the state of
education, Fayemi said Ekiti had a tradition of being the intellectual capital
of the country but it seemed to have lost that edge lately.
He said his government was
working toward repositioning the sector, particularly at the basic and tertiary
levels.
The governor said he had set up
visitation panel in all the tertiary institutions in the state to review and
recommend what the critical and challenging issues were and how government
should respond to the yearnings of the sector.
He said the government was taking
specific steps to address access to education in the basic education
sub-sector.
“Before now, Ekiti used to be the
leading state in terms of school enrollment in the country but the latest
figures we received from the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) makes
it clear that we are lagging far behind,” he said.
“We have moved from 96 per cent
enrollment in the entire country to about 45 per cent meaning that about 55 per
cent of our school age children are of school.
“That is unacceptable in a state
like Ekiti and we need to find out what has happened between 2014 and 2018
leading to this appalling figure in terms of school enrolment.
“And one of the very first things
we are doing to improve enrolment is to make sure that all fees and levies in
the primary and secondary sector are removed, so we have removed that.
“We have returned free compulsory
and qualitative education to our basic education sector.’’
The governor dismissed
insinuations that he was having disagreement with the labour union in his
state.
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ReplyDeleteFayose has done very well for the people of Ekiti State, you have nothing to probe him for and beside you party APC rig the election for you therefore, if you went further to probe him God will be very very angry with you and your so called APC Shame
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