I won’t appoint more than 14 commissioners –Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has declared
that the state has the capacity for only 14
commissioners based on its financial state.
The governor stated this on Thursday, while featuring
on the monthly radio and television programme, tagged
“Meet Your Governor.”
He said the immediate past administration appointed
more commissioners and special advisers than the
economy of the state could sustain.
Fayose, who said the state’s past administration
appointed 102 special advisers, assured the people of
the state that the list of the commissioners to be
appointed by him would be presented to the state
House of Assembly within 48 hours.
He told the people that his administration would
explore all available means towards improving Internally
Generated Revenue in the state.
While giving an update on the recent staff verification
exercise, the governor said that a total of 49,066 civil
servants had been screened while 48,257 of them had
been verified, leaving the status of 809 workers as
unverifiable.
As part of the measures to increase IGR, Fayose said
all taxable adults, including corporate bodies, must live
up to their responsibilities by paying their taxes to the
government.
He charged all federal agencies operating in the state
to pay the taxes they owed the state government to
avoid being sanctioned.
Fayose also tasked persons who had bought plots of
land and houses from the state government since 2003
to pay up.
Speaking on security, Fayose said any resident whose
building is either used as accommodation or warehouse
by armed robbers would have such property demolished
immediately.
He also threatened to seize farmlands where cultivation
of Indian hemp is discovered in any part of the state.