The Federal Government is to pay N92.4million severance package to the
16 retired Permanent Secretaries following their disengagement from
the civil service.
A 12-month breakdown of the above shows that each of the Permanent
Secretaries will receive 300 per cent of their annual basic salary of
N1, 925,865.00 which amounts to N5, 777,595.00 for each of the 16
retired public officers totalling N92,441,520.
According to Vanguard, the retired civil servants are to also receive a
monthly pension of over N800,000 including allowances, following the
fundamental review of the Nigerian pensions system, some categories of
top public servants like permanent secretaries, police officers,
professors and others, whose conditions of service prior to the
enactment of the Pension Reform Act, 2004 allowed them to enjoy 100
per cent of their final pay as pension for life.
The 16 disengaged permanent secretaries are: Godknows Igali, Power;
Obinna John Chukwu, FCT; Mrs. Fatima Bamidele, Interior; Dr Tunji
Olaopa, Comm. & Tech; Ezekiel Oyebola Oyemomi, Women Affairs; Ibikun
Odusote Abimbola, OSGF; Baba Umar Farouk, Mines & Steel Dev; Dauda
Kigbu, Works; Mrs. Anastasia Mabi Daniel-Nwaobia, Min of Finance; Ossi
George Afemefuna, Land, Housing & Urban Dev; Henry Edumudoh Akpan,
OSGF.
Others are: Mr. Taiye Haruna, Petroleum; Aliyu Ismaila, Defence; Dr.
James Obiegbu, Police Affairs; Linus Awute, Health, and Mrs. Nkechi
Ejele, Tourism, Culture & National Orientation.