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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on state governors that pay pension to former governors to emulate their Abia State counterpart, Alex Otti, and stop paying, with a view to saving money for accumulate pensions of civil servants over the years.
–Gov Otii signing the bill
Describing the payment of pension to former state governors and their deputies as outrageous, Obasanjo also described the pension as “a daylight robbery.
The former president stated this on Friday when he paid Otti a visit at his country home in Nvosi, Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of the state.
He said, “I watched the television and I saw the repealing of Abia pensions and I asked you what exactly is this, and you said to me that the pensions scheme for former governors here was too outrageous.
“It’s like trouble because it allowed them to have a house in Abuja and elsewhere, and it allowed them to cart away with whatever they can, yet the pensions of ordinary people from 2014 are unpaid.
“What sort of leadership? You came and said there would be an end to that rascality. I congratulate you, and I say to you, I hope that your colleagues will follow in your footsteps.”
The repealed law provided for security, medicals, cooks and stewards, among others for the former governors.
The bill titled “H.A.B 11, The Abia State Governor’s and Deputy Governor’s Pensions Law Repeal Bill 2024,” was sponsored by the Majority Leader and member for Arochukwu State Constituency, Mr Okoro Uchenna Kalu.
Obasanjo is not alone in this; since Friday when The State Online first published the news of the ex-state governors’ pension cancellation by Gov Alex Otti, our comments section has been filled with Thumbs- up running into scores, an indication that Otti may have scored the bull’s eye by this singular act./PLEASE SHARE
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