No fewer than 1,131 civil servants in Ekiti State have benefitted from the state government’s N300 million housing and car loans in the last 20 months.
Mr Dayo Akinleye, the Chairman, Ekiti State House of Assembly Committee on Government House and Protocol, made this known on Wednesday in Ado-Ekiti.
The committee chairman commended the present government for its workers’ welfare policy, while submitting his report at Wednesday’s plenary presided over by the Speaker, Mr Kola Oluwawole.
Akinleye said the present government had disbursed over N303 million as car and housing loans since its inception on Oct. 16, 2014.
“As a demonstration of his worker-friendly administration, Governor Ayo Fayose has disbursed the sum of N200 million as car loan to 667 beneficiaries.
“Also, N102 million have so far been given as housing loan to 464 civil servants in the state.
“During my committee’s oversight function, we observed that arrangement was ongoing with the Federal Mortgage Bank to expand workers access to loan,” Akinleye said.
He added that a stress-free verification exercise was also carried for pensioners in the state to ascertain the actual number of pensioners during the period under review.
“The exercise was meant to ensure transparency and prompt payment of pension to beneficiaries as soon as they retired,” he added.
