The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi as part of the activities to mark his first year in office as a second term governor has promised to continue to initiate programmes and projects that will help to positively impart the lives of the teeming population of the people of the State to enable them live a better life.
The Governor made this commitment while giving his State of the State Address at the hallowed Chamber of the Ekiti State House of Assembly in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday to give his stewardship of office.
Addressing the people of the State, Fayemi reiterated his assurances to pay the N30,000 Minimum Wage that he announced during the 2019 World Teacher’s Day Celebrations at the Kayode Oluyemi Stadium in Ado Ekiti.
He said “by my training, culture and practice, it is normal to always look ahead in life. My government has been able to touch every aspect of governance since my second coming. Talk of the Educational sector, Infrastructural Development, Empowerment for our youths as well as the restoration of our lost values – from the day one that I came back for my second term in office, I have set out to correct the errors of the past administration”.
Fayemi used the opportunity of his address to also reinstate the confidence of the Ekiti people towards him saying that since he came on board for his second term, he has ensured the payment of workers salaries regularly.
“I can assure you all here that the salaries, pensions and arrears owed by the last administration in the State will all be paid off by my administration as we begin the journey into the second year of our second term in office. The arrears of the workers salaries is not a bad debt”.
Fayemi pledged his readiness to employ 1,000 primary school teachers as well as 1,000 for the secondary schools in the state.
“And for our teeming unemployed youths in the state, we shall create more jobs for them as we go ahead in the second year of our second coming. Equally, within out first year in office in our second coming, we have been able to bring back all those Development Partners that worked tirelessly with us during our first tenure in office back to the state. We are even expecting more of them to join us in developing the state to the level of our dreams and expectations.”
He listed some of the Development Partners to include the World Bank, UNDP, UNESCO and many others. My government has increased the number of youths involved in agricultural programmes in the state.
“Through the efforts of our government, Agriculture has become the mainstay of our economy. Our government is poised to ensure the construction of an Old People’s Home in the state which will help to serve as an avenue to cater old people.”
Fayemi equally used the opportunity of the state of the state address to seek the help of the people of the state in areas of prayers and their readiness to pay taxes so that his government can have enough resources to run his programmes.
He thanked the Ekiti State House of Assembly, the State Civil Service, his party men and women as well as the Deputy Governor and his amiable wife for their support, love and contributions over the last one year.
While giving his welcome address at the event, the Rt. Honourable Funminiyi Afuye, the Ekiti State House of Assembly Speaker expressed his satisfaction on the one year administration of Dr. John Kayode Fayemi in office in his second coming into the State.
Afuye noted with joy how God intervened in Ekiti’s matter to restore peace and end the period of oppression, ill tempered administration and the mis-governance of the immediate past administration in the state.
Afuye commended Fayemi for changing the negative narrative in the state since he came on board from ‘bole ka ja’, hedonistic and devious administration, to one that performs and delivers on its promises for the people of the state. Afuye condemned the level of impunity, financial recklessness and systematic dehumanization of the psyche of Ekiti people by Fayose.
Credit: Emmanuel Adeniran
