The governor is ostensibly making a premeditated move to repeal the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension) Law which came into operation on May 9, 2007. Section 6 of the law defines “public office holder” to mean the governor or deputy governor only. In 2016, shortly after Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s second term tenure, a bill was ferried into the state House of Assembly seeking to amend the 2007 “Pension Rights of the Governor and Deputy Governor Law”. One would wonder how these office holders would benefit these freebies for years, and still want to continue even beyond their tenure? Beyond the abolition of the pension laws for rapacious political office holders, the whole system instead needs a radical overhaul.

Source: Punch November 23, 2020 23:11 UTC