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Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has accused Governor Kayode Fayemi of fooling teachers with the approved payment of the 27.5 per cent Teachers Salary Structure and cancellation of the Teachers Development Need Assessment.
Describing it as “deceit of the century,” Fayose said “Ekiti teachers cannot befooled by a government that took them for granted for over three years.”
In a statement made available to journalists in Ado Ekiti by the Director General of Ayo Fayose Campaign Organisation, Chief Dipo Anisulowo, the PDP governorship candidate said; “Fayemi should rather apologise to Ekiti teachers for refusing to pay the 27.5 per cent TSS that was being paid by the PDP government before he assumed office.”
Fayemi had on Monday promised to begin full payment of the 27.5 percent Teachers’ Pecuniary Allowance.
He made the promise while addressing teachers at the sensitization programme on the State Education Programme Investment Project in Ado Ekiti where he also donated an 18-Seater bus to the teachers.
The governor in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Olayinka Oyebode, claimed he had been paying 16 per cent of the TSS based on negotiation with the teachers.
He also debunked insinuations that his government was compiling the list of workers for disengagement assured that his administration was not planning to sack teachers who had spent over 30 years in service.
But Fayose said that as at the time Fayemi stopped paying the 27.5 per cent TSS, the State Government needed less than N30 million to pay.
He said, “It is a fact that payment of the 27.5 per cent TSS to Ekiti teachers was approved by the PDP government of Rt. Hon. Olatunji Odeyemi when he was Acting Governor. The approval was implemented by the PDP government of Engr Segun Oni.
“When Fayemi assumed office, he stopped the TSS, as well as payment of the Local Government Health Workers Consolidated Health Salary Structure and Consolidated Medical Salary Structure.
“It therefore amounts to deceit taken too far for Fayemi to say that he has approved the payment of teachers 27.5 per cent TSS that he stopped out of sheer wickedness just because he needed votes from the teachers.
“It is also deceitful for the governor to have waited for more than two years to realise that the competency test that he tried so hard to force on Ekiti teachers was unnecessary and a waste of public fund meanwhile Labour Party Governorship candidate in Ekiti State, Opeyemi Bamidele, has urged the All Progressives Congress–led government in the state not to interfere in the trial of those alleged to have murdered a member of his party, Mr Foluso Ogundare.
Ogundare, a close ally of Bamidele, was allegedly killed by suspected members of APC in Emure Ekiti on November 3, 2013 during a ward meeting.
A serving member of House of Assembly and member of APC , Kehinde Boluwade and six others are presently being tried at the Ekiti State High Court over their alleged involvement in the murder.
In a statement in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday by his media Aide, Ahmed Salami, Bamidele said Governor Kayode Fayemi and members of his party had not shown remorse over Ogundare’s death.
