Workers Accuse Fayose Of Spending N3b On Chartered Flights

Posted by George on Mon 17th Sep, 2018 - tori.ng

Governor of Ekiti State, Fayose has been accused of gross abuse of public office by a sector of workers in the South-western state.

Governor Ayo Fayose

Ekiti State workers, under the aegis of Enlightened Workers Forum (EWF) and Ekiti Integrity Group (AIG), have accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of spending N3 billion on chartered flights for political and personal affairs.

They said such spending had neither added value to governance nor benefited the people since Fayose became governor about four years ago.

They said the governor should be prosecuted for alleged diversion of state funds into private enterprises.

The EWF, in a statement yesterday by its coordinator, Mike Bamidele, alleged that Fayose spent N26million of state funds monthly on chartered flights which he noted “has dug a big hole in the Ekiti treasury.”

The statement read in part: “We are in possession of evidence of how the governor frequently flew members of his family and in and out of the state and to locations, where he spends weekends and usually holidays with his associates.

“For 47 months, the governor was said to have made countless trips and checks at aviation hiring companies were said to have revealed a mind-boggling accumulation of flight time logs that runs into a monthly average of N26 million.”

But the Commissioner for Information, Lanes Ogunsuyi, dismissed the allegations, asking the accusers to provide evidence.

He said: “The allegation is untrue, does the governor charter plane to everywhere he goes every month? We are waiting for their so-called evidence to prove their allegations.”