Saraki Wants Ex-Governors To Stop Receiving Pension

President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki, has proposed an end to the payment of pension to former governors and their deputies in the country.

Saraki made the suggestion following Kwara State House of Assembly’s passage of the bill disallowing former governors and their deputies to draw their pension from the state’s coffers.

The Senate President, while commending the Speaker of the State’s Assembly, Ali Ahmad, for the bill’s passage, equally urged other states to emulate Kwara.

“I am pleased that following my conversation with Kwara Speaker, Rt. Hon. Ali Ahmad, two months ago, the bill to suspend the payment of pension to former governors and their deputies when they hold a political or public office was passed into law on Tuesday by the Kwara House of Assembly,” said Saraki who was Kwara State governor from 2003 – 2011.

“Moving forward, it is my hope that other state assemblies take a cue from Kwara state and pass similar pieces of legislation into law.”