President-elect, General
Muhammadu Buhari (retd), is to lead a campaign to repeal the pension
laws for governors enacted by many states of the federation, Vanguard
has learnt.
The
proposal by the incoming president is based on what sources close to him
affirm as the incongruity of the laws under the country’s
socio-economic environment and also, as a way of demonstrating moral
leadership from the top.
Majority
of the nation’s 36 state Houses of Assembly have enacted generous
pension entitlements for governors that in many cases provide 100 per
cent pay for the incumbent governors buildings, generous medical
allowances for them and their family members and annual holiday
provisions, all of which are to last for life. Provisions in the pension
allowances are also made for staff, security and vehicles that are
renewable every three or four years.
Buhari’s
inclination towards a review of the pension for former governors was
first publicly declared few days to the presidential election at the All
Progressives Congress, APC, retreat in Owerri, Imo State.
It’s scandalous
A
source conversant with the development disclosed that Buhari told the
governors that there was no way Nigeria could survive under the
financial weight of the pensions that had been earmarked for governors.
He was said to have described the pension laws as enacted by states
controlled by APC and PDP governors as scandalous.
According
to the source, “he was very blunt about it and said that it was
something that was going to be done immediately, especially because it
is not something that can be sustained.
“The
feeling was that not only was it wrong and morally unconscionable, but
that it was not something that should be encouraged, and he was
appealing to them that it should be changed.” - Vanguard
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