Former governor of Ekiti state and ministerial nominee, Kayode Fayemi, has been screened by the Senate.
Fayemi’s ministerial screening, which lasted up to an hour, was an engaging back and forth between the senators and the ministerial nominee.
Many questions were thrown at Fayemi, and he answered them intelligently and impressively.
After being satisfied with him, the Senate allowed him to take a bow and go.
Here are 10 quotes by Fayemi, from the screening.
1. ‘On Internal Security; Our prisons have been saturated with people who do not have access to justice.’
2. ‘Every state borrows, even the United State we look up to is the most indebted country in the world’.
3. ‘The Govt House is probably the cheapest Govt House in Nigeria. I did it for Ekiti State & not for myself.’
4. ‘On Foreign Policy; right now our domestic agenda does not really drive our Foreign Policy.’
5. ‘Poverty is not inevitable, we have a lot of countries like China that has lifted it’s people from poverty.’
6. ‘Poverty is the problem between the mindlessly rich and hopelessly poor.’
7. ‘On unemployment; we had a youth empowerment scheme that paid graduates 10,000Naira every month. ‘
8. ‘Majority of our graduates have education but do not have work place skills and they need that.’
9. ‘We provided computers in schools for our students to be able to acquire and develop work place skills.’
10. ‘Our security needs to address our Criminal Justice System, people don’t get punished for crime.’
