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<\/p>\nThe body encouraged other states with similar laws to also scrap such benefit.<\/p>\n
Mr Auwal Rafsanjani, Executive Director of CISLAC said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n
Rafsanjani said that payment of pension and other entitlements to former governors, their deputies and former speakers and their deputies, was a way of siphoning public treasury.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe appreciate constructive legislative process that repealed the contemptible law in the state assembly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis fruitful legislative action is a declaration of readiness for people-oriented legislative process, which if sustained, will positively transform the state\u2019s socio-economic and political spheres,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Rafsanjani decried the alarming recurrent expenditures with resultant high cost of governance that backpedals development of critical sectors in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany states are caught in ill-thought efforts to needlessly legalise increased pensions and remunerations for retired public officer holders.<\/p>\n
\u201cNigerians are not unaware of the unjustified political intentions with deliberate effort to siphon public treasury through which the law emerged across the states.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is in spite of numerous jumbo salaries, allowances, benefits, and public paid expenses enjoyed by the governors, their deputies, former speaker and their deputies throughout and after their tenures.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis includes the states that erected private buildings as retirement packages for the public office holders as well as former governors who enjoy double payments from senatorial positions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are worried that the increasing clamours for life-time pension and benefits accrued to public office holders across the states constitutes a major sabotage to effective and efficient governance.<\/p>\n
\u201cHence exacerbating electoral violence and discrediting electoral process,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
He also urged Nigerians to demand strict compliance with entitlements prescribed by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission in all remuneration and entitlements at all levels.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has commended Zamfara House of Assembly for abolishing \u2018despicable\u2019 life pension law in the state. The body encouraged other states with similar laws to also scrap such benefit. Mr Auwal Rafsanjani, Executive Director of CISLAC said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Rafsanjani said that payment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,5716,271],"class_list":["post-171170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-cislac","tag-zamfara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}