The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has
asked the state Head of Service, Dr. Gbenga Faseluka, to take appropriate
disciplinary action against 31 civil servants who resumed late to work on
Monday.
The governor gave the directive when he paid an
unscheduled visit to the state secretariat on Monday.
Fayose, who arrived at the place around 7.45am
caught many of the workers who arrived after the official resumption time of
8a.m unawares.
Many of the workers rushed to work on learning
about the unscheduled visit of the governor to the place while the 31 were
unlucky to beat the governor. More pictures after the cut...
As soon as the governor arrived at the place, he
ordered that the gate should be locked at 8am.
The governor, who expressed displeasure at the
attitude of some workers in the state, said such an act of indiscipline must be
stopped.
He ordered his aides and the Head of Service to
take down the names of the affected workers and that stern disciplinary action
must be taken against them.
Several of the female workers knelt down while
the men prostrated for the governor begging him to save their job.
But Fayose said, “If a labourer is worth his
wages, the employer also is worth his services. I have warned workers in the
state repeatedly about coming late to work or taking their jobs with laxity.
Despite the paucity of funds, we have been regularly paying workers’ salaries.
“If workers are paid regularly, the workers too
must justify our efforts and work for the money they earn. There are many
people out there searching for jobs. I want to take the workers by surprise and
I will visit a lot of places. This will be a continuous exercise. Those that
are not disciplined and not ready to key in to our policy of taking the state
to a greater height will be shown the way out,” he said.
The governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu
Adelusi, told our correspondent that the governor had earlier appealed to the
workers to show commitment to the service.
“For long he (the governor) has been warning them
against idleness and lateness. He had sent the HOS to them to change their way.
The governor was on a fact-finding mission to know if the workers had heeded
his advice,” he said.
Adelusi added that the governor planned to pay
unscheduled visits to the local governments any moment from now.
He said, “It would be a continuous exercise. The
governor wants the Ekiti State Civil Service to be a model for others.”
When contacted for his reaction at 1.33pm, the
Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Mr. Ade Adesanmi, promised to call
back after five minutes.
However, he did not pick the calls placed to his
telephone again between 4:30pm and 4.32pm.
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