The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership has urged the new Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to declare his assets.
It called on Fayemi, who was sworn in on Tuesday, to behave like Caesar’s wife and “come to equity with clean hands by declaring all his assets and those of his deputy, publicly”.
It said by taking this step, Fayemi would be making his second coming as Ekiti State Governor memorable.
CACOL said it knew that what it asked Fayemi to do was not strange to the governor as he did the same during his first stint as governor.
“Aside from his pedigree that such declaration tends to preserve, it would serve as a baseline to hold other office holders by and this could be better appreciated if we consider his antecedents as a prominent rights crusader and civil society advocate.
“Our position remains that the course of leadership deficit that has afflicted the nation for so long and our resolve to roll it back, would be better served if he could start on this promising note of accountability,” CACOL said in a statement by its Media Coordinator, Adegboyega Otunuga.
The centre, however, commended the governor for immediately springing into action after his swearing-in on Tuesday “by announcing a ‘free education programme’ for all pupils in the state-owned primary schools up to junior secondary school”.
“This is a laudable step, considering the fact that education is one cardinal area the people of the state has consistently prided themselves in, aside from the global benefits accruable to any government, with an educated populace,” CACOL said.
