A
number of former governors serving in President Buhari's cabinet have
denied receiving pensions from the state's purse according to a recent
development.
Babatunde Raji Fashola
Three former governors currently serving as ministers in the
President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet have said that they are not
receiving pensions from their state governments.
The ministers are Babatunde Fashola (Power, Works and Housing);
Chris Ngige (Labour and Employment) and Kayode Fayemi (Mines and Steel
Development).
Fashola, a former governor of Lagos State, said he did not receive any pension from Lagos State.
According to his Special Adviser on Communications, Mr. Hakeem
Bello, the minister recently made it clear that he (Fashola) had no
reason to ask the Lagos State Government to stop paying him a pension
when from the outset he never accepted it.
Bello said, “The minister spoke on Hard Copy, a programme on
Channels TV on Friday. In that programme, he said you don’t ask them
(Lagos State Government) to stop what you never accepted in the first
place.
“This your question was one of the questions they asked him during that TV programme and what I told you was his response.”
On his part, Ngige also said he does not receive pension from the Anambra State government.
He said, “I wish to put it on record that since I left office
in 2006 as governor of Anambra State; throughout the four years I spent
in the 7th Senate (June 2011-2015) and currently as the Honourable
Minister of Labour and Employment with effect from November 11, 2015, I
have never drawn a dime even in the intervening period that I was not in
public office, as salary, emolument and pension from the Anambra State
Government’s coffers.
“In fact, I have not received any severance benefit as
prescribed in the Anambra State House of Assembly law on pensions and
other welfare and benefits for former governors and deputy governors,
2006, and amended 2013. Aside the two utility vehicles given to me some
years ago, I have not accessed any of the privileges and other lawful
trappings due to the office.
“It is worth stating for the avoidance of any doubt that the
Supreme Court affirmed that I was entitled to these benefits in their
landmark judgment in Mike Balonwu and others Vs Anambra State
Government, which declared me governor, de facto and de jure between
2003 and 2006.”
Also, Fayemi said he had not even received his severance package
from the Ekiti State Government as approved by the Revenue Mobilisation,
Allocation and Fiscal Commission since leaving office in 2014.
In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr. Yinka
Oyebode, Fayemi, who is now Minister of Mines and Steel Development,
said he had not received any kobo as pension.
Recall that Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, recently said he
had stopped collecting pension in Kwara as a former Governor of the
state.
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