The Ekiti judicial panel of inquiry set up by the Ekiti State Government, a former governor and Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, and his Finance Commissioner, Mr.
Dapo Kolawole, have been barred from holding any public office in the state and Nigeria for 10 years.
The decision was part of the recommendations of the judicial commission headed by Justice Silas Oyewole as the government accepted the report of the white paper on the Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by the State Executive Council.
Fayemi and Kolawole were also slammed for refusing to appear before the commission even after the determination of the case challenging the inauguration of the commission of inquiry before the Ekiti State High Court.
Addressing journalists after the SEC took delivery of the report, the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Lanre Ogunsuyi, said: “Their disrespect to the constituted authority and the undignified roles they played in the whole contracts saga were obviously against the interest of the state they were supposed to protect. They are banned from holding public office in Ekiti and any part of Nigeria.”
