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Published 25 May 2021
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday opposed the total scrapping of the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension Law 2007), which ensures payment of pensions and other benefits to former Governors Bola Tinubu, Babatunde Fashola and Akinwunmi Ambode and their deputies.
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday read for a second time a bill that seeks to repeal the law.
The new bill which was debated on the floor of the House at a sitting presided over by the Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, is titled ‘A bill for a law to repeal the law to provide for the payment of pensions and other fringe benefits to public office holders in Lagos State and for other connected matters’.
By Olasunkanmi Akoni
A bill seeking to repeal the law which grants pension and other emoluments to former governors and deputies has scaled second reading at the Lagos State House of Assembly.
The ex-governors of the state who are presently benefitting from the jumbo pension include Bola Tinubu, Babatunde Fashola, and Akinwumi Ambode.
The new bill which was debated on the floor of the House at a sitting presided over by the Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, is titled: ‘A Bill for a law to repeal the law to provide for the payment of pensions and other fringe benefits to public office holders in Lagos State and for other connected matters’.
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A bill to stop the payment of pension to former governors and their deputies in Lagos State has passed the second reading in the Lagos House of Assembly.
The bill was submitted to the House of Assembly on November 20, 2020, by Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the state governor.
With the bill, Mr Sanwo-Olu seeks an amendment to the Payment of Pension Law (2017), a move to stop huge amounts paid to former governors and their deputies.
The second reading of the bill held on Monday and was presided over by the Speaker of the House, Mudashiru Obasa.
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At least 24 states across Nigeria enacted laws providing generous pensions to their former governors and their deputies.