Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Monday asked the state Head of Service, Dr. Gbenga Faseluka, to take appropriate disciplinary action against 31 civil servants who resumed late to work.
The governor who gave the directive when he paid an unscheduled visit to the state secretariat, arrived at the place around 7.45am and caught many of the workers who arrived after the official resumption time of 8a.m unawares.
Many of the workers rushed to work on learning about the unscheduled visit of the governor to the place while the 31 were unlucky to beat the governor.
As soon as the governor arrived at the place, he ordered that the gate should be locked at 8am. and expressed displeasure at the attitude of some workers in the state, while insisting that such an act of indiscipline must be stopped.
He ordered his aides and the Head of Service to take down the names of the affected workers and that stern disciplinary action must be taken against them.
Several of the female workers knelt down while the men prostrated on bare floor for the governor begging him to save their job.
But Fayose said, “If a labourer is worth his wages, the employer also is worth his services. I have warned workers in the state repeatedly about coming late to work or taking their jobs with laxity. Despite the paucity of funds, we have been regularly paying workers’ salaries.
“If workers are paid regularly, the workers too must justify our efforts and work for the money they earn. There are many people out there searching for jobs.
“I want to take the workers by surprise and I will visit a lot of places. This will be a continuous exercise. Those that are not disciplined and not ready to key in to our policy of taking the state to a greater height will be shown the way out,” he said.
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