We Won’t Stop Huge Pension For Ex-Governors, Top Public Office Holders – Lagos Assembly

Lagos State House of Assembly says it will not repeal the state’s pension law permitting former governors and other public office holders to receive huge pensions from state coffers.

Chairman, House Committee on Information and Strategy, Mr. Tunde Braimoh, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday that Lagos Assembly would not go the way of the Zamfara Assembly which recently repealed pension law for its former governors.

NAN recalls that a Federal High Court in Lagos had ordered the Federal Government to recover pensions collected by former governors now serving as ministers and members of the National Assembly.

The court also directed the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami, to challenge the legality of states’ pension laws permitting former governors and other ex-public officials to receive huge pensions while drawing normal salaries and allowances in their new political offices.

Braimoh faulted the court ruling, noting that, as long as the law does not contravene the Constitution, state assemblies have the right to make laws for the benefit of the society in which they operate.