Adeleke decries Oyetola’s last minute recruitment of workers

Says it’s a plot to cripple incoming government

The transition committee set up by the Osun State governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke, yesterday, described the last-minute recruitment embarked upon by the Governor Adegboyega Oyetola-led administration as a deliberate plot to expand payroll and financially cripple the incoming government.

The state government had on Monday announced that Oyetola approved recruitment of fresh 1,500 teachers. This followed the initial recruitment of 1,000 teachers earlier in the year.

The state’s Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Funke Egbemode, in a statement, said the new approval would further bridge the teacher/pupil ratio, adding that “the new approval brings the total number of teachers recruited by Oyetola’s administration to 2,500.

However, in a statement signed by Chairman, Media Sub-Committee of Ademola Adeleke Transition Committee, Olawale Rasheed, stated that the governor-elect condemned the worker’s recruitment, adding that the action was a disguise to complicate the state’s economy.

The committee noted that in the last two months, the Oyetola administration had illegally employed thousands of personnel without consideration for the state’s capacity to pay and without any workforce planning, leading to governance driven by vendetta and desire to run the state aground.

“As a freshly-elected governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has a well studied plan to fill the manpower gap within the educational sector and other areas of needs without further complicating the already troubled workforce and over-bloated remuneration space.

“The plan to illegally recruit the teachers and OYES personnel is another evil agenda to disrupt the incoming governor’s agenda to normalise Osun finances and restore dignity of labour. This move is neither altruistic nor a patriotic rendering of service,” the statement said.

“The goal is to deepen financing gridlock, plunge Osun State workers into another era of pain and hardship and perpetually place the workforce in poverty and the state in under-development. As an incoming governor with a popular mandate, Senator Ademola Adeleke will not allow the inhuman agenda of Governor Oyetola prevail on Osun people.

“It is on this note that we call on Osun State people to beware of involvement in politically-motivated employment processes that won’t stand the test of time. We urge job seekers and all other stakeholders to distance themselves from this desperate ploy, as any illegal recruitment won’t be recognised by the incoming government.

“As we have noted in several statements, any bureaucrat who aids and abets the several illegalities being cooked up and executed by the outgoing government will be held accountable. Illegal disposal of government assets, fraudulent contract payments, scamming disposal of government’s assets, illegal recruitment, unconstitutional conduct of council elections and others will also be sternly revisited after November 28. His Excellency’s vow to Osun people to deliver on good governance remains sacrosanct,” the statement stated.