Cash crunch: We won’t retrench, says Fayose

Ekiti State Government has said his administration would not retrench workers despite the financial challenges being experienced by the state.

The governor, who spoke in Ise-Ekiti during a sensitisation tour of local governments on the financial situation of the state, said his administration would instead discuss with workers to find means of paying their salaries.

According to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, the governor, who also visited Emure Local Government, said allocations to both state and local governments had reduced.

“A comparative analysis of the allocations to local governments in Ekiti between January to October 2014 and the same period this year would clearly explain what I am talking about.

“During that period in 2014, the local governments got over N22bn, while they were given N15bn for the same period this year. A shortfall of over N5bn. What even came in last month was terrible. We therefore decided to pay primary school teachers in September and paid local government workers in October.

“Now, the issue is should we now skip a month and pay all workers at once or keep rotating the payment of salaries among different categories of workers? You are the ones to decide,” the governor said.