Fayose Offers Cars, Free London Trip To Best Teachers

• Ekiti workers demand release of finance commissioner

The Ekiti State chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to release the detained Commissioner for Finance, Toyin Ojo and Accountant General of the State, Mrs. Yemisi Owolabi.The state NLC Chairman, Ade Adesanimi, said the call became necessary so that they could come home to pay the salaries and allowances of workers.

Governor Ayodele Fayose also urged the anti-graft agency to consider the plight of the workers and release the detained officials.Fayose announced automatic promotion of primary school graduate teachers on grade 14 to 15 and presented car gifts with a weeklong holiday to London or Dubai for all the best teachers in primary

Represented by his Vice-chairman, Gbenga Akosile, Adesanmi, the NLC chairman said: “If the EFCC has anything against the officers, it should charged them to court,”The governor, who spoke at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti, said: “Let them fight me because I am not going to keep quiet.”He lauded the teachers’ efforts in making the state to come top in the results of the National Examination Council (NECO) for two consecutive times.