Disclose Pensions Paid To You As Ex-Governors, SERAPNigeria Tells Senate President Akpabio, Other Former Govs In Nigerian Senate | Sahara Reporters
Disclose Pensions Paid To You As Ex-Governors, SERAP Tells Senate President Akpabio, Other Former Govs In Nigerian SenateSERAP is also urging them to"promptly clarify if you have collected and/or currently collecting life pensions as former governors from your respective states, to stop collecting any such pensions and return the pensions collected to the treasury."
The letter read in part:"Nigerians expect you to act in the public interest including by ending the collection of any life pensions from your respective states and returning any such pensions that may have been collected to the treasury. "We would be grateful if the recommended measures are taken within seven days of the receipt and/or publication of this letter. If we have not heard from you by then, SERAP shall take all appropriate legal actions to compel you and other members of the Senate to comply with our request in the public interest."
"According to our information, there are fourteen former governors in the 10th Senate who may be collecting life pensions running into billions of naira from their respective states. The former governors are: Godswill Akpabio ; Adams Oshiomhole ; Adamu Aliero ; Dave Umahi ; Aminu Tambuwal ; and Abubakar Sani Bello .
"There is also state-sponsored annual medical service of about N100 million for ex-governors and their spouses and N50 million for the ex-deputy governors, five-bedroom mansions in Abuja and Akwa Ibom. Other benefits include: 300% annual basic salary as 'severance gratuity', 300% of annual basic salary for 'car maintenance'; 100% of annual basic salary for 'entertainment'; and 100% of annual basic salary for 'utility.
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