{"id":70600,"date":"2019-11-26T22:10:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T21:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=70600"},"modified":"2019-11-26T22:10:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T21:10:33","slug":"zamfara-abolishes-n700million-annual-jumbo-pay-to-ex-gov-speaker-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/zamfara-abolishes-n700million-annual-jumbo-pay-to-ex-gov-speaker-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Zamfara Abolishes N700million Annual Jumbo Pay To Ex Gov, Speaker, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m2567818024587573241\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Few days after former Governor Abdulaziz Yari wrote a letter protesting the none payment of his N10million monthly upkeep allowance, the Zamfara state house of assembly has abolished the law that allows\u00a0former governors, their deputies, speakers and their deputies to get jumbo pension and other allowances.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter dated October 17, addressed to the governor, Yari said the law which provides for the entitlement of former governors, deputies, speakers and deputy speakers was amended in March and that it should not be truncated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish to humbly draw your attention to the provision of the law on the above subject matter which was amended and assented to on the 23rd of March 2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law provides, among other entitlements of the Former Governor, a monthly upkeep allowance of Ten Million Naira (N10,000,000) only and a pension equivalent to the salary he was receiving while in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccordingly, you may wish to be informed that since the expiration of my tenure on the 29th of May, 2019. I was only paid the upkeep allowance twice i.e for the month of June and July while my pension for the month of June has not been paid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the law provides, the pension and upkeep allowance are not in the category of privileges that can be truncated without any justifiable reason, hence, the need to request you to kindly direct the settlement of the total backlog of the pension and upkeep as provided by the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At plenary on Tuesday, Faruk Dosara, the house leader, presented a bill, urging his colleagues to consider scrapping the law which he described as unfair to retired civil servants who have not been paid their entitlements over the years.<\/p>\n<p>He said going by the law, the state would spend N700 million annually on former governors, their deputies, speakers and deputy speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Tukur Tudu, lawmaker representing Bakura constituency, said the abolishment of the law was necessary as it is detrimental to the socio-economic well being of the citizens of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Nasiru Magarya, the speaker, subsequently asked the clerk to accelerate the bill first and second reading.<\/p>\n<p>It was later passed into law and sent it to the governor for his assent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conversation-footer\" class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few days after former Governor Abdulaziz Yari wrote a letter protesting the none payment of his N10million monthly upkeep allowance, the Zamfara state house of assembly has abolished the law&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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