The  Ekiti State Governor,  Kayode Fayemi, has ordered the immediate suspension of the the ongoing teachers recruitment exercise in the state.

Chairman of the state Teaching Service Commission, TESCOM, Mr Babatunde Abegunde, made this known in Ado Ekiti on Thursday.

He said  the directive was due to the governor’s commitment  to the general welfare of the people in the state and the need not to make new entrants into the public service suffer unduly.

The governor however, directed immediate refund of money paid by successful candidates in the recruitment exercise conducted by the state TESCOM .

Abegunde  explained that monies to be refunded covered those paid by the candidates for the purchase of the Teaching Service Manual, Service Record and Job Cards among others during the documentation stage.

He stated that the state government was very fair in the recruitment exercise, but regretted that the pandemic and the attendant economic downturn, as well as the ENDSARS protest stalled the process.

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He assured that the recruitment process would continue as soon as the state finances improved, to accommodate new entrants into the state workforce.

According to the report of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), about 100 candidates may have been affected by this development.