The Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council, Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu Candido, has signed into law an edict approving the payment of pension to the council’s past elected chairmen and speakers.
With its passage, AMAC’s past council chairmen would be given an annual pension of N500,000, former vice chairmen are to receive N300,000, while former speakers of AMAC’s legislature will be paid N200,000 each.
According to Candido, the gesture was meant to honour past heroes of the council who he said sacrificed their talents and energy in building the council.
He said it was also to celebrate Nigeria’s 59th independence anniversary as well as celebrate the 35th anniversary since AMAC’s creation.
The Chairman said only past leaders who are still living would benefit from the package, which would cost the council more than N6 million annually.
Beneficiaries include six past chairmen, six past vice chairmen and eight past speakers.
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