The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Thursday warned civil servants in the state not to collude with the out going All Progressives Congress (APC) -led government to loot the state’s treasury.
In a statement issued by the party’s State Publicity Secretary, Pastor Kola Oluwawole, in Ado Ekiti, the party warned that those civil servants found to have connived with the Kayode Fayemi Administration in the illegal employment and issuance of backdated letters of appointment will face disciplinary action when the new government is inaugurated.
Oluwawole also stated that civil servants discovered to have helped the outgoing government to loot the treasury will face disciplinary action.
Oluwawole alleged that Governor Fayemi directed a meeting of top civil servants held on Thursday to come up with a supplementary budget for the local government election he had scheduled for end of this month.
The PDP spokesman stated that civil servants involved in the drawn up of the budget and release of money for the election will not go unpunished.
He also alleged that the out-going governor approved different sums of money within a day with the papers being perfected by his civil servant collaborators.
Oluwawole further alleged that Fayemi’s looting spree has amounted to about N3billion within the last two weeks , saying most of the money are allegedly being siphoned by the governor and his collaborators with impunity.
According to him, a sum of N184,863,211.19, N406,293,791.08 and another N604m was allegedly collected within a day for the purchase of furniture that would be used at the New Government House which is yet to be completed.
It was equally alleged that the governor made an approval N1.9 billion for the procurement of medical equipment for Oba Rufus Adejugbe General Hospital, Ado Ekiti all within one week.
It was equally alleged in the statement that the government had perfected plans to allegedly raise another N5 billion loan before its exit in October, the contract of which the PDP said has been allegedly awarded to a consultant in Lagos who facilitated many other loans for the state government in the past.
“We’ve gathered that the government is planning to plunge Ekiti State into another round of bond chasing because of the intention of the outgoing governor and his men to milk Ekiti dry before leaving the government in October.
“We wonder why the APC government is doing this now that the people of Ekiti have rejected them by voting out Governor Kayode Fayemi in the June 21 election.
“It is unfortunate that what Fayemi determined to do in his second time in office which the people of Ekiti State have denied him, he wants to capture in the remaining three months that he will still be in office,” the statement said.
PDP however called on the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to be at alert and intervene at the appropriate time so that Ekiti State treasury could be saved from total embezzlement.
It is still unclear how the out going APC led government of Ekiti state will respond to clear it’s name. 