The Benue State House of Assembly on Monday repealed the life pension law for former governors and their deputies. The Benue State life pension law is meant to maintain former governors and their deputies all through their lifetime.
In May 2023, a few days to the end of their tenure, the 9th Assembly had passed the controversial pension bill to extend benefits to ex-elected governors and their deputies from 1999. Those affected include; former governors George Akume , Gabriel Suswam , Samuel Ortom , ex-deputy governors, Steven Lawani and Engr Benson Abounu, who are still alive.
” Recall that the former Speaker of the 9th Assembly, Engr. Titus Uba, had led the plenary, which earlier passed the bill to law after it was presented on the floor by the then chairman, House Committee on Business and Rules, Hon. Geoffrey Agbatse. The bill stipulated the conditions of the law to include, payment of a monthly stipend as a basic pension for former governors and their deputies, equivalent to the current salaries of the serving governor, from the consolidated revenue of the state.
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