Uzodimma Assents to Bill Repealing Law on Payment of Pensions,Gratuity of Ex=Governors. Speakers, Others
GOVERNMENT OF IMO STATE
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Uzodimma Assents to Bill Repealing Law on
Payment of Pensions, Gratuity of Ex-Governors, Speakers, Others
The Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope
Uzodimma has accented to a Bill repealing the law that created pension
allowances and gratuities to former Governors, Deputy Governors, Speakers and
Deputy Speakers.
Speaking after accenting to the Bill at Sam
Mbakwe the Exco Chambers, Government House, Owerri on Friday, the Governor
noted that the law has become necessary because the it runs contrary to the
1999 constitution as amended, which stipulates that a pensioner must have
worked for at least 10years and must be up to 45 years of age.
Governor Uzodimma noted: “Apart from the
inconsistency of such a law to the provisions of the grundnorm, 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.’’
He regretted a situation where some of
the beneficiaries of such payments equally get huge amount of money as salaries
and allowances in other positions they occupied such as seating Senators or Members
of the House of Representatives.
While thanking the Imo State House of
Assembly for rising to the occasion and embracing totally the desire of
government to strengthen the internally generated revenue base of the State,
Governor Uzodimma assured of his commitment and desire to grow an economy that
will stand the test of time.
Addressing newsmen at the end of the
exercise, the Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Chiji Collins
informed that they presented two Bills for the Governor’s accent: the Bill on
Imo State University of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences and Bill on the
repeal of Pensions and Gratuity.
Collins said that the Bill on Pensions and
Gratuity has long been repealed in many States of the Federation when it was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).
The Bill on Imo State University of
Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, the Speaker explained, is to ensure
that the University is moved to where it belongs: the Imo State College of
Agriculture Umuagwo where the National Universities Commission (NUC) visited
for accreditation and not Aboh Mbaise as people are clamouring.
Present at the signing of the Bill to
repeal the Law on Pensions, Allowancesand Gratuities include the Deputy
Governor of Imo State, Prof. Placid Njoku; the Deputy Speaker of Imo State
House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Amara Iwuanyanwu; the Majority Leader, Uche Ogbuagu
and other members of Imo State House of Assembly, as well as some members of
the State expanded Executive Council.
Oguwike
Nwachuku
Chief Press Secretary/Media Adviser
(Gov.)
May 22, 2020
Picture
Caption:
1.
Governor
Hope Uzodimma handing over to the Speaker of IMSG the signed Bill to repeal the
Law that makes provisions for pensions and gratuities to former Governors,
Deputy Governors, Speakers and Deputy Speakers, and others in Imo State
2.
Governor
Hope Uzodimma signing the Bill into Law at Sam Mbakwe EXCO Chambers, Government
House, Owerri
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