NO MORE PENSION AND ALLOWANCES FOR EX GOVERNORS AND THEIR DEPUTIES,SPEAKERS AND THIER DEPUTIES.

There is a law which enabled the payment of pension and other allowances to former governors, their deputies, Speakers and their deputies in almost all the 36 states of Nigeria.

In line with this law, a former Governor, Abdul’aziz Yari wrote the Zamfara state government demanding the payment of his N10 million ‘monthly upkeep’ which he said had not been paid for some months.

On recieving the news of the request, the Zamfara state's House of Assembly decided to nullify the law on Tuesday November 26. 

House leader Faruk Dosara, (PDP Maradun) who presented the bill, told his colleagues that past leaders of the state “were collecting over N700 million annually”. He urged his colleagues to consider the ‘complete repeal’ of the law “which provides the jamboree payment for the former political leaders of the state at the detriment of the retired civil servants who have not been paid their entitlements over the years" as the state's present economy cannot accommodate it. 

The motion was seconded by Hon. Tukur Jekada Birnin Tudu (PDP, Bakura), who said the abolishment of the law was highly necessary as it is detrimental to the socio-economic well being of the citizens of the state.

After a quality time of deliberations and contributions by other house members, Speaker of the House Rt Hon Nasiru Mu’azu Magarya ordered the Clerk of the House to give the bill first and second reading.

The bill has been sent to the Governor for assent after it went for a third reading as the House passed the bill into law. 

Do you think, formal political office holders should be paid such huge sums of money even after their tenures?