From Tope Musowo, Ado-Ekiti
Ekiti state government has denied plans to sack civil servants as being allegedly peddled on social media by the opposition, All Progressives Congress.
According to an issued statement by the Special Assistant, Public Communication and New Media, Mr. Lere Olayinka, yesterday in Ado-Ekiti, the state government stated that the current exercise of trimming down the number of ministries in the state did not indicate that it was going to sack some workers.
The statement said, “Workers in the state have nothing to fear, the ongoing exercise of trimming the number of ministries is not an indication that workers are going to be sacked.
“The exercise is intended to make the workers more effective and efficient. Workers will be deployed in a way to get the best out of them.
“The only set of workers that have issues to clarify are those that were employed without due process after the APC lost the June 21 governorship election.
“The proposal before the state governor, Dr Ayodele Fayose, is the reduction of the number of ministries and parastatals to reduce cost of running the government, so as to be able provide more basic amenities for the people. “The planned reduction of ministries and parastatals is still at the level of proposal that is yet to be considered by the governor.”
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