Kudos to Ayo Fayose

Many will be surprised to know that Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State is not on the list of “Governors from Hell”.

 In an era in which many governors owe huge backlog of salaries, Fayose has been up to date with payments of salaries to civil servants. Fayose pays on the last working day of every month. The ebullient Ekiti State Governor has also paid one of the two-month salary backlog left by his predecessor, Kayode Fayemi. For the first time in many years, Ekiti civil servants are happy again. This is indeed commendable. Fayose has to keep it up.

For the “Governors from Hell” pummeling civil servants, they must change their ways. The governors on this growing infamous list have not paid their workers for months while they go about living big. I am talking about Rochas Okorocha, Jonah Jang, Liyel Imoke, Mallam Isa Yuguda, Abiola Ajimobi and Raufu Aregbesola.

 

Last December, the Osun State governor was all over Lagos gyrating to the music of Wasiu Ayinde and Saheed Osupa while Osun workers soaked their pillows with tears over unpaid salaries