Efio-Ita Nyok|23 July 2017
*Twenty-one senators currently receiving pensions from government as ex-governors and deputy governors.
The current senators who once served as governors are:
1. Bukola Saraki of Kwara,
2. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano,
3. Kabiru Gaya of Kano,
4. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom,
5. Theodore Orji of Abia,
6. Abdullahi Adamu of Nasarawa,
7. Sam Egwu of Ebonyi,
8. Shaaba Lafiagi of Kwara,
9. Joshua Dariye of Plateau
10. Jonah Jang of Plateau,
11. Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto,
12. Ahmed Sani Yarima of Zamfara,
13. Danjuma Goje of Gombe,
14. Bukar Abba Ibrahim of Yobe,
15. Adamu Aliero of Kebbi,
16. George Akume of Benue and
17. Isiaka Adeleke of Osun.
*The former deputy governors in the Senate are:
18. Ms Biodun Olujimi of Ekiti
19. Enyinaya Harcourt Abaribe of Abia.
20. Danladi Abubakar Sani served as the acting governor of Taraba state.
*Many former governors are also in Buhari's Cabinet as Ministers. This includes:
21. Dr Chris Ngige,
22. Fayemi,
23. Rotimi Amaechi and
24. Babatunde Ahmed Fashola (SAN).
*Akwa Ibom State
The law provides that former governors and deputy governors receive pension equivalent to the salaries of the incumbent. The package also includes a new official car and a utility vehicle every four years; one personal aide; a cook, chauffeurs and security guards for the governor at a sum not exceeding N5 million per month and N2.5 million for his deputy governor.
*Rivers State
The law provides 100 percent of annual basic salaries for the ex-governor and deputy, one residential house for the former governor “anywhere of his choice in Nigeria”; one residential house anywhere in Rivers for the deputy, three cars for the ex-governor every four years and two cars for the deputy every four years.
*Lagos
A former governor will get two houses, one in Lagos and another in Abuja, estimated at N500 million in Lagos and N700 million in Abuja. He also receives six new cars to be replaced every three years; a furniture allowance of 300 percent of annual salary to be paid every two years, and a N30 million pension annually for life.
*The Question begging for answers:
How many years did these guys serve their states as governors and deputy governors? Is it more than 8years? Is that a reason to be entitled to pensions for life? Even if they are entitled to pension for life, must it be so outrageous?
*Outrageous
As if that is not enough: HOW on earth can any public servant with conscience collect salaries and allowances as a senator or minister, and still have the audacity to claim pensions equivalent to the salaries of a serving governor in Nigeria?
*Comparison
Do you know that it costs tax payers 290m Naira yearly to maintain each member of our National Assembly in a country where nothing works & 80% of population earn below 300 Naira a day ? A working day earning of a senator is more than a yearly income of a doctor; it's more than the salary of 42 Army generals or 48 professors or 70 commissioners of police or more than twice the pay of the US President or 9 times the salary of US congressmen.
Efio-Ita Nyok
Is a Blogger, the Editor & Publisher of NegroidHaven
