Abia State governor, Alex Otti, has assented to the Abia State of Nigeria Governors and Deputy Governors Pension Repeal Law of 2024 recently passed by the Abia State House of Assembly.
According to reports, the governor explained that the bill is an executive bill and thanked the State House of Assembly for expeditiously passing the bill.
He said it was his belief from the onset that the government was not going to continue with the practice of paying pensions to former governors and deputy governors in the state as the money would have been better used in offsetting the backlog of pensions owed Abia retired workers since 2014.
“I want to make a few things clear, one that even before we came onboard a lot of people who had followed our views understood that we were not going to continue with the practice of paying pensions and allowances to this set of former government officials. A lot of people had confronted me to remind me that very soon I will also be a former governor and I agree, ” Otti said.
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