Joined in the suit as Respondents are: the Universal Basic Education Commission and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory
Browsing: Life Pension
A cross section of those interviewed by the News Agency of Nigeria across the zone, said life pension for former governors and their deputies was an aberration that must be condemned.
A cross section of those who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria called for the abrogation of the law.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court, Abuja to order the 36 State Governors in Nigeria to “publish details and breakdown of payment of pensions to each of the former governors and other ex-officials, and the names and number of ex-governors and other officials receiving pensions under their respective State pension laws between 1999 and 2019.”
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent an open letter to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State urging him to use his “good offices as trustee of the state’s resources, and consistent with your constitutional oath of office, to reject the proposed life pension bill by the leader of the House of Assembly Peter Akpe, and to prevail upon the House to immediately withdraw the self-serving bill.”