Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has urged the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and other former governors in the executive and legislature to emulate the example of Senators Daniel and Dankwambo by rejecting the payment of “illegal pension” forthwith.
Falana, who made the call in a statement on Sunday commended Daniel and Dankwambo, stating that their action is highly commendable at a time when not less than twenty former governors in the executive and legislative branches of government are receiving double salaries.
RoyalTimes gathered that the senior lawyer recalled that in compliance with court judgments, “Senators Gbenga Daniel and Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo have requested the governors of Ogun and Gombe States, respectively, to stop paying them the scandalous pension.”
According to Falana, in a landmark judgment delivered on November 26, 2019, Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo (now retired) declared the payment of the pension illegal and unconstitutional.
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