Ekiti Teachers Curse Governor Fayose Over Xmas Gifts

It was an interesting sight yesterday as primary and
secondary school teachers from all over Ekiti State
converged on Agric Olope area of Ado-Ekiti to collect
the chickens that Governor Ayodele Fayose promised
them for Christmas.
As early as 9am, teachers had started to throng the
distribution venue to collect their chickens. When
Governor Fayose arrived with a deluge of security
aides in his traditional short-sleeve T-shirt, he threw
victory punch to the air with the supporters he
brought in buses responding with shouts of Oshoko.
The whole stretch of Agric Olope of Ajilosun was jam-
packed with the vehicles of the teachers that came
from all over the state.
The other end of Agric Olope by Matthew Street was a
no-go area as teachers, who parked their cars far
away from the distribution venue, trekked long
distances.
By noon, the picture of what would emerge at the end
of the day had started to take shape as teachers
went home with pigeon-size chickens cursing the
governor in unprintable words. Some left in
annoyance shouting “Sai Buhari, Sai Buhari”.
When the governor saw the anger of the teachers as
they shoved and shoved in an uncontrollable
scramble to collect their chickens, he offered to
decentralize the distribution, but the teachers had
already lost their patience, as they left in anger.
One teacher from Omuo-Ekiti lamented that he had
spent about N800 to travel to Ado-Ekiti to collect a
chicken that sells for less than N1000. One of the
friends of a teacher who parked his car about 400
metres away from the venue with a green Nissan
Primera lamented ever wasting his time “for this
nonsense”. The man was more angry as the car of his
friend broke down with bad brake cable where they
parked. As at 6:30pm, mechanics were still battling to
bring the car to life.
Surrounded by four other teachers, one of them said
that he knew the whole exercise would be a fluke
immediately he learnt that teachers in both primary
and secondary schools were lumped together for the
exercise.
“I know it is going to be like this. More than half of the
teachers won’t get the fowls. Elomirin a kari so dele
loni leyin ugba kaan ba ruun kankan gba leyin kaan
duro titi titi ninu orirun (some people will go dejected
back home empty-handed after waiting long hours in
the sun).
As teachers moved enmasse in anger from the place,
the governor pleaded that they should come back,
promising that he would add N2 million to be shared
among the teachers.
This angered the teachers the more, as they started
shouting:”How much will one teacher get if N2m is
shared among more than 18,000 teachers in both
primary and secondary schools?”
As The Trumpeter tried to take the photographs of the
teachers as they were leaving in anger, some covered
their faces to avoid being photographed.
To everybody’s chagrin, Fayose on his way to the
office abruptly stopped at Matthew street junction
along Ajilsun and sat at a phone vendor booth
making phone calls while traffic built up heavily along
the road.
http://abusidiqu.com/ekiti-teachers-curse-governor-
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