Concerning why it seemed like Ekiti State government wasn't forthcoming on funds to help fly late Moji Olaiya's corpse home from Canada, the Ekiti Sta
Concerning why it seemed like Ekiti State government wasn’t forthcoming on funds to help fly late Moji Olaiya’s corpse home from Canada, the Ekiti State Government has offered an explanation.
In a statement issued by the Special Assistant to Governor Ayodele Fayose on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, he said it was totally false that Ekiti State refused to render any assistance
While maintaining that there was no official communication between the governor and Moji Olaiya’s family on the issue of concern, Olayinka said, “On Thursday, last week, I was contacted on phone by a friend, Yomi Fabiyi on the need for the Ekiti State Government to assist in raising a sum of $15,000 needed to bring Moji Olaiya’s corpse to Nigeria.
“My immediate response was that an official request, via a letter should be made and that the letter will be presented to the governor. I gave him my email address to which I said the letter should be sent.
“On Friday, I informed the Chief of Staff to the governor, Chief Dipo Anisulowo of my telephone conversation with Yomi Fabiyi, and my response that official letter should be written to the governor.
“Up till today, (monday) the letter has not been sent and as such, no official request has been made to the State Government. When my attention was drawn to an online publication that Governor Fayose had elected to fund the flying of the deceased corpse to Nigeria, I called the journalist who did the report and told him pointedly that no such decision was taken by the governor.
“It was on the strength of this that Yomi Fabiyi issued a press statement on behalf of the Burial Committee, stating that no request had been made to the government of Ekiti State and the official letter requested was yet to be sent.
“It, therefore, beats our imagination that a certain character like Olukayode Salako could take to the online media to make derogatory comments on the governor, purportedly on behalf of the family.
