FAYOSE APPROVES
N140M SEVERANCE PACKAGE FOR FORMER PUBLIC OFFICE HOLDERS
Ekiti State
Government on Monday announced the approval for payment N140m severance package
due to former dead and living elected-public-office holders at the local
government level.
The Chief Press
Secretary to the state governor, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, in a statement, said the
beneficiaries of the severance include those elected into office in 1999, 2006
and 2008.
They included former
chairmen of local governments, council secretaries, councilors as well council advisers.
He said the state
governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, gave the order for the immediate payment of the
severance package to the affected officers during a meeting he held with them
on Monday.
Adelusi quoted the governor as directing that families of those already dead
must also be paid the entitlements of their deceased ones.
He also warned local
government officials who would effect the payment not to play politics with the
exercise, saying anyone caught would face the consequences.
He
said, “The governor felt that despite the economic challenges we are facing as
a state, we feel it is our duty to honour those who had served our state in the
past.
“They had contributed
their own quota to the development of our state; therefore, families of those
that are already dead should be paid too.
“The exercise has
nothing to do with politics and must be fairly shared.
“We already made some
payments some months ago and we are again doing this now.
“If this had been
done in the past, the backlog would not have been a burden on us now, if not
for the financial challenges we are facing, we would have paid everything at a
goal.”
The governor
admonished leaders of the state to let their actions be in the best interest of
the state.
The statement said Fayose
urged the people of the state to expect the best from his administration,
economic recession notwithstanding in the New Year. READ MORE
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