Fayemi
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has
expressed the resolve of his administration to hands off all
commercial ventures of the state to professionals.
Governor Fayemi, who spoke to newsmen during
the continuation of his tour of project sites and infrastructure in
the state promised that his government would soon commence work on
all abandoned and dilapidated projects in the state.
He lamented the sorry state of virtually all
legacy projects that are supposed to be the pride of all Ekiti people
adding that all the projects were in full operation before he left
office four years ago.
Specifically, the Governor said Fountain Hotel
would soon bounce back as his administration will soon embark on
rapid rejuvenation of the facility to return its old glory and
position it as a profitable venture.
He wondered why a government that claimed to be
people’s government would allow projects that belong to the people
to almost go to extinction within his watch.
Fayemi said, “All these things, we are going
to fix, but it is important for Ekiti people to know the type of
leadership that just left office in our state. Because these facility
was in full operation when I was governor up to the last day I spent
in office.
This facility was one of the sought after
facilities for use, because it is attached to the hall that provides
very good usage for public and then the 32 rroms that are here are
always almost fully booked, so for me to see it in this state, I just
ask myself, its not rocket science to manage public property. You
really need to think of yourself, how do you manage your own property
at home. At the last time I checked, governor Fayose manages his
private properties very well, so it means that public properties
means nothing to him, that is why he would allow this to be destroyed
like this.
“We
would revive it, we would rejuvenate Fountain Hotel and then let it
out to professionals to manage. What this also proves is that we
really need to get government out of managing commercial ventures in
our state, because government would come and go, but the properties
would still be here, and they are legacy properties. All of us should
see them as source of pride to Ekiti people, most people who came to
Ekiti about one decade ago, this is probably the only hotel they
would know. But look at this place now, this is a shadow of itself,
this is a ghost town”.
Fayemi said the purpose of the tour was not to
witchunt or cast aspersion on anyone but to have on the spot
assessment of the information he received through the ministerial
briefings from the MDA’s.
According to him, “The purpose of this
assessment is not even to pass blame or cast aspersion on anybody, it
is to just see what the officials have told me during the briefing by
MDAs. I did not want to go by what the MDAs have told me, that is why
I am out to examine all these things myself and to form my own
judgement about how our state has been govern and what we need to do
as a people collectively to ensure that never again should we subject
our state to people who neither know anything about governance nor
development .
Other project sites visited by the governor in
Ado-Ekiti, the state capital are Ekiti Parapo Pavilion Adunni
Olayinka Civic Centre and Oja Oba.
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