Some of the workers who were sacked by Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, have staged a protest to appeal to the governor to revert his decision.
The protesters included 568 primary and secondary school teachers recruited into Teaching Service Commission by immediate past governor, Ayo Fayose.
They were among the 2,000 whose sack was announced on Thursday.
The protesters stormed the Teaching Service Commission located within the State Secretariat complex at about 8:30am Friday with their appointment letters to validate their claim.
Olawole Ganiyu spoke on behalf of the protesters. He said: “During the Fayose-led government, we were at home when vacancies were advertised. We paid N1,000 to buy forms. We wrote examinations and sat for interview. Scores of the examinations were pasted at TSC.
“Later, qualified people sat for interview and letters of appointments and posting were given to successful people. What was in our letters was that, we are to work for three months before getting salaries, but we have not been paid a dime since eight months ago.
“Government must be passionate. We were born and brought up here in Ekiti. Most of us have relocated to our schools and worked hard. Some of us even resigned from our previous places of work to take up these appointments.”
Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joshua Kolapo, and his counterpart in Trade Union Congress (TUC), Sola Adigun, begged the government to rescind the decision and reabsorb the workers into the civil service.
