Edo State House of Assembly has amended the
“2007 Pension Rights of the Governor and
Deputy Governor Law” to provide a residential
building worth N200 million for the immediate
past governor of the state, Comrade Adams
Oshiomhole.
The amended law also provided N100 million
worth of house to his deputy, Dr. Pius Odubu.
Oshiomhole left office last Saturday after the end
of his tenure.
If the amended law is assented to by Governor
Godwin Obaseki, the former governor and his
deputy stand to enjoy the pension benefit of
residential buildings worth N200 million and N100
million.
The provision of the residential building was the
only amendment to the law. Both the former
governor and his deputy are to have the
residential buildings worth N200 million and N100
million in any location of their choice in Nigeria.
According to the bill with the subhead titled,
“provision of a house” read thus; a house in a
location of choice in Nigeria of the Governor
provided that the total cost of building the house
shall not be in excess of 200 million naira while
100 million naira for the deputy governor.
Other benefits to be enjoyed by former governors
in the state are, a pension for life at a rate
equivalent to 100 percent of his last annual
salary in addition to an officer not above salary
grade level 12 as Special Assistant, a personal
secretary not below grade level 10 who shall be
selected by the former governors from the public
service of Edo state.
Former governors are also entitled to have two
cooks, two armed policemen as security, three
vehicles to be bought by the State Government
and liable to be replaced every five years, three
drivers who shall be selected by the former
governor and paid by the state government as
well as free medical treatment for the governor
and his immediate family.
Former deputy governors are entitled to 100
percent of their last annual salary as pension, a
personal staff not above salary grade level 12 as
Special Assistant, a personal secretary not below
grade level 09 who shall be selected by the
former deputy governor from the public service
of the state, a cook, two policemen as security.
Two vehicles bought by the state government
and liable to be replaced every five years are to
be provided, two drivers who shall be selected
by former deputy governors and paid by the
state government and free medical treatment for
them and their immediate family.
Culled from The Nation
