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Imo Governor Stops Payment of Pensions to Ex-governors and Speakers

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Posted by Blessing on May 23, 2020 4:50 pm / 0 Comments

Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma has assented to a bill revoking the law that created pension allowances and gratuities for former governors, deputy governors, assembly speakers, and deputy speakers.

Signing the bill into law on Friday Governor Uzodinma was unhappy with the former situation of the state where  some of the beneficiaries of such payments also get a huge amount of money as salaries and allowances in other positions they occupied such as serving as senators or members of the House of Representatives.

the governor further  noted that the erstwhile law runs contrary to the 1999 constitution as amended, which stipulates that a pensioner must have worked for at least 10 years and must be up to 45 years of age.

“Apart from the inconsistency of such a law to the provisions of the ground norm, which is the Constitution of 1999 (as amended), this has led for a very long time a precedence that does not encourage diligence and prudence in service delivery,” the governor said.

Governor Uzodinma  thanked the State House of Assembly for embracing in  totally the desire of the government to strengthen the Internally Generated Revenue base of the state,

Reacting to the development, the  Speaker of the Imo House of Assembly, Chiji Collins, said the house of assembly presented two bills for the governor’s assent: the Bill on Imo State University of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences and Bill on the Repeal of Pensions and Gratuity.

According to him, the  Bill on Pensions and Gratuity had long been repealed in many states of the federation when it was discovered to run contrary to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).

Present at the signing of the bill into law were the Deputy Governor Prof. Placid Njoku; the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, Amara Iwuanyanwu; the Majority Leader, Uche Ogbuagu and other members of the House, as well as some members of the State’s Expanded Executive Council.

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