Ekiti Govt facilitates employment for over 20,000 job seekers in 18 months - Official

Ekiti State Government says it has employed over 20,000 job seekers into the formal and informal sectors of the State’s economy in the last 18 months.

These include over 1,500 Primary School teachers, 500 Secondary School teachers and over 400 workers in various sectors of the State Civil Service.

The State Commissioner for Information, Rt. Hon. Taiwo Olatunbosun who made this known in Ado Ekiti while featuring in the maiden edition of a bilingual simulcast programme ‘Ekiti loni/Ekiti today’, assured of fairness and transparency in the process of all Government’s employment and empowerment programmes.

Rt. Hon. Olatunbosun stressed that the norm is to advertise vacancies before conducting examinations/interviews to ensure that competent hands are employed for specific public functions.

Emphasizing that no responsible Government would jettison meritocracy on the altar of favouritism and nepotism, Olatunbosun said that the Oyebanji administration takes pain to ensure that the best qualified people are employed into public offices to avoid a possible decrease in productivity and lower quality of work.

He however noted that government’s interventions are not limited to white collar jobs for people to perform professional services, desk, managerial or administrative work that are generally executed in an office or other administrative settings, stressing that Governor Oyebanji administration has several empowerment programmes ranging from agribusiness, small and medium scale enterprises, digital skills training, to skill acquisition for cloth weaving, adire etc as well as artisan training and transfer of knowledge and technology for citizens to leverage on to make themselves self-reliant.

Olatunbosun assured that Government would continue to facilitate grants, soft loans with low interest rate to kick-start and boost medium and small businesses as well as provide regular interventions including free land-clearing and subsidized ploughing, harrowing, in addition to provision of improved seedlings to encourage farming and boost food security.