Gov AbdulRazaq set to repeal ex-governors' pension law in Kwara

News Agency Of Nigeria 17:09 - 13 November 2020

AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Governor of Kwara State (The Guardian)

Kwara is set to repeal the current pension law under which former governors and their deputies collect monthly pensions.

Alhaji Rafiu Ajakaye, the Chief Press Secretary to Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, said in a statement on Friday in Ilorin that the governor was set to send an executive bill to the House of Assembly that would repeal the current pension law.

Ajakaye said the executive bill would be transmitted to the lawmakers by next week seeking the immediate repeal of pension law.

“The governor has listened to voices of the majority of the citizens opposing the pension law for former governors and deputy governors”, the statement said.

Ajakaye expressed the hope that as representatives of the people the lawmakers would exercise their discretion by instituting a public hearing “to further harvest wider opinions on the topic’’.