SaharaReporters has learned about a bill recently introduced in the Lagos State House of Assembly to approve luxurious lifelong benefits to the legislative body’s speaker and deputy speaker.

The bill proposes to grant the two officials, who are members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), pensions that amount to 100 percent of their annual basic salary for life, after their tenure as leaders in the state assembly expires.

The bill also proposes such additional benefits as a free house anywhere in Lagos State and a free vehicle paid for from state funds.

In a move that two APC insiders criticized for being corrupt and selfish, the two legislative officials are also meant to receive unlimited allowance for furnishing their free homes, security personnel for life, and free medical treatment for the officials and their families for life. Other obscene benefits include additional allowances for housing maintenance, vehicle maintenance, and entertainment—each category calculated at 10 percent of the officials’ base salary. The officials’ utility allowance is at 20 percent of their base salary.

In addition, the bill stipulates that the state governor and deputy governor as well as their families would receive free medical treatment for life. All designated members of the state leadership would have pensionable drivers for life as well.

The scandalous bill is cited as “the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension) Law 2007 (Amendment) Law 2015.”

“This bill is a slap on the faces of the hapless residents of Lagos State who pay through their noses for amenities that are mostly inadequate or absent,” said a critic of the bill, an APC member. He added, “This is a senseless war by some decadent APC leaders against the public interest.”

A member of the state assembly, who said he found the bill shocking, said the proposed bill was introduced at a time Nigeria’s public attention was focused squarely on national elections, the counterinsurgency against Boko Haram in the north, and the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to London.


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This Is Nasty, I Call on the House of Assembly to look into this

Legislation should be made to be a part time job

APC: So call Party of the people robbing Lagosians since time immemorial.
...And they call themselves Progressives

APC- Thievery party since AD90

Una don see chanhe dey run.

If the president, vice president, senate president, speaker and deputy speaker of the house of reps could pass same laws at the federal level it is only conmonsensical that all houses of assemblies will follow suit.

They are all elected officials that is why a CHANGE is important to our polity.

Can a president who assent to such luxury for himself query other executive arm officials not toil the same line?

Leadership is by example, if JonaTAN, David mark and tambuwal can enjoy it at federal level then ikuforiji too is deserving since they were all elected.

All state houses of assemblies will pass same laws for their speakers since it is the season of political brigandage. Let JonaTAN drop the law and see others follow suit.

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pendy79:
If the president, vice president, senate president, speaker and deputy speaker of the house of reps could pass same laws at the federal level it is only conmonsensical that all houses of assemblies will follow suit.

They are all elected officials that is why a CHANGE is important to our polity.

Can a president who assent to such luxury for himself query other executive arm officials not toil the same line?

Leadership is by example, if JonaTAN, David mark and tambuwal can enjoy it at federal level then ikuforiji too is deserving since they were all elected.

All state houses of assemblies will pass same laws for their speakers since it is the season of political brigandage. Let JonaTAN drop the law and see others follow suit.

In other words there is no diff between Pdp and apc.

mekaboy:


In other words there is no diff between Pdp and apc.

No in other words, we need a president who is not ensnared by the spoil of office and lead by example.

The new act passed by the National assembly gives the state assembkies the wherewithal to follow suit. The president has assented to the bill and it is now a law, do you expect them to blind themselves to the opportunity of the peck of office guaranteed by the waste JonaTAN made possible.

Buhari never earned salary in the PTF stating he is already on Army Pension hence he can't earn two salaries from the FG. That is leading from the front, as a leader you do things that will model the ways of your followers.

I choose CHANGE and a new Nigeria, Buhari will seek to repeal all laws that allow wastage of our commonwealth.

You can't give what you dont have.

Children of hate will not notice this is the same Saharareporters exposing APC members misbehaving.

But when they write about PDP, same lunatics will start hyperventilating and call them an opposition wing

@Topic - something is wrong with most of our politicians in Nigeria

U will still see some fools shouting change

Chiselling crooks!

pendy79:


No in other words, we need a president who is not ensnared by the spoil of office and lead by example.

The new act passed by the National assembly gives the state assembkies the wherewithal to follow suit. The president has assented to the bill and it is now a law, do you expect them to blind themselves to the opportunity of the peck of office guaranteed by the waste JonaTAN made possible.

Buhari never earned salary in the PTF stating he is already on Army Pension hence he can't earn two salaries from the FG. That is leading from the front, as a leader you do things that will model the ways of your followers.

I choose CHANGE and a new Nigeria, Buhari will seek to repeal all laws that allow wastage of our commonwealth.

You can't give what you dont have.

Hope it will stop tinubu from collecting tax in lagos.

We are in trouble in this country, this just proves one thing there is no difference between APC and PDP...SMH

Change

pendy79:
If the president, vice president, senate president, speaker and deputy speaker of the house of reps could pass same laws at the federal level it is only conmonsensical that all houses of assemblies will follow suit.

They are all elected officials that is why a CHANGE is important to our polity.

Can a president who assent to such luxury for himself query other executive arm officials not toil the same line?

Leadership is by example, if JonaTAN, David mark and tambuwal can enjoy it at federal level then ikuforiji too is deserving since they were all elected.

All state houses of assemblies will pass same laws for their speakers since it is the season of political brigandage. Let JonaTAN drop the law and see others follow suit.

Once
GEJ is d reason
Well, someone that can't impregnate is even blaming GEJ