By CHIKA IZUORA, Lagos The Lagos State Governor has been asked to immediately Withhold his assent to the Bill by the Assembly proposing less than 50 per
The Lagos State Governor has been asked to immediately Withhold his assent to the Bill by the Assembly proposing less than 50 per cent reduction of pensions to former governors of Nigeria’s richest State.
The Lagos State House of Assembly announced on Thursday that former Governors would now receive half of what the State used to give them as pension after leaving office. Part of the pension benefits include but not restricted to cash in millions of naira, a fleet of cars to be changed in every three years and houses to be built for them all at public expense.
In a statement at the weekend signed by the Chairman, Human and Environmental Development Agenda, Mr Olanrewaju Suraju, said the reduction to 50 percent betrays the earlier public commitment of the state governor to abolish the practice and falls short of the remarkable revocation of similar laws by Kwara and Zamfara States.
“We are shocked by the hypocritical and selfish decision of the State House of Assembly to reduce the package for the former State Governors rather than approving the proposal as sent by the State’s executive.
HEDA said the former governors are not career workers like civil servants who often put in up to 35 years into public service. He said the 50 percent slash fails to address the fundamental issue which is that the former governors do not deserve to live on public funds after they have left to continue their mostly profit driven private businesses.
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