Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode
Fayemi has assured Ekiti people that his administration will not abandon
projects inherited from previous administrations in the State.
Speaking in Afao Ekiti on
Wednesday during his tour of The Gifted Academy built by the Ayo Fayose-led government,
Dr Fayemi stated that though he may not agree with his predecessor on the
rationale behind the establishment of some projects, abandoning those projects
would amount to wasting the resources of Ekiti State.
The governor who re-echoed his
administration’s perception of governance in, “the continuum frame” recalled
that he completed virtually all projects left behind by the Segun Oni-led
government in 2010 because they were executed with public funds.
He explained that the tour was
aimed at having a comprehensive assessment of all projects.
“When I came as governor, I
completed to the best of my ability virtually all the projects left behind by
the Oni administration. It was my government that completed some of the roads
started by Oni. It was my government that completed Ipoti-Odo Owa- Ila Orangun
road, Otun-Osun-Iloro road, Isan – Ilemeso road, we completed the House of
Assembly complex. It has always been our intention to see governance in a
continuum frame.
“We don’t make discreet
compartmentalization of governance but where we are today, it is inevitable, we
have to take a comprehensive look at all projects whether we have the resources
to work on them is another matter.
“The important thing is these
have been funded by Ekiti money not by a particular governor who embarked on
the project. I may disagree with many of the things put in place by my
predecessor but I don’t think it is in my place to abandon them because I am
abandoning the resources of the State”, he said.
Governor Fayemi noted that it was
his administration that facilitated the World Bank support for the funding of
the Gifted Academy though the project was executed by Fayose hence the need to
ensure that the facility is put to good use.
The governor said though Fayose
shut down the Federal Government Girls’ College, Isan Ekiti, a similar project
initiated by Fayemi, he would not embark on a vendetta mission of cancelling
the Gifted College since it belongs to Ekiti people and not Fayose.
His words: “The gifted academy
which was built by the last administration as a SEPIP project and you may be
aware that SEPIP project was what I started and I got the money from the World
Bank and we have various DLIs and those were the basis for giving us the money;
you make some things happen and you got the money from the world bank.
“If you go to the Technical
College in Ado, that is also a World Bank project. It is good that we have this
but it must be put to good use.
“We had a similar project in my
own community but when the Fayose government came, he shut the school down the
Federal Government Girls’ College. In fact, the Principal had been appointed,
students had been admitted the whole place was ready but because it is in his
predecessor’s community, just as he attempted to cancel the College of
Technical Agric, Isan Ekiti, that probably the fear why he would want a single
student here despite that it was not academic session yet.
It doesn’t make any sense to have
just a single student being taught here by probably twenty or thirty teachers
and a principal already assigned. I don’t come from that school of thought that
what’s not mine must be destroyed. The school belongs to Ekiti and it is not
going to be cancelled or destroyed”.
While stating that the process of
admitting students into the school should be merit-driven, the governor said he
would ensure that government set “a very clear standard that will be adhered to
in terms of how this place will be run because it is a legacy for the future”.
Speaking on Ire Burnt Brick
factory, Fayemi said the decision of his government to revive the burnt brick
factory was to demonstrate the good “we can make of our natural endowment”.
While assuring that his
government would ensure that the factory continues to produce, the governor
lamented the cancellation of the contract for the rehabilitation of
Afao-Ire-Ilupeju road by the immediate past government; adding that the new
government would provide motorable road that would make the factory accessible.
“We will continue to do our best
to ensure that the brick industry is in its best condition to fulfil the dreams
of its founding fathers so that Ire can continue producing. It is not for it to
be abandoned.
That road was awarded before I
left and I don’t know what happened to that contract. Yet you find places that
have no commercial value which we are expending huge amount of our resources.
The important thing is that access must be provided to enable the products to
get out”, he said.
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