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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 counter insurgency
against Boko Haram in the north, and the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu
Buhari’s visit to London.

source: www.saharareporters.com/2015/03/03/apc-leaders-lagos-state-house-assembly-grant-themselves-lifetime-benefits-opulent

This is Lagos version. Nigeria version is coming till Nigeria is reduced to bone

This is the type CHANGE they want to bring. Using an old man as the distraction while they use the resources of the nation as their personal estate.

And now, we can all see the kind of change APC will bring to Nigeria: change from small small corruption to big big corruption. They are following the footsteps of their Senior-in-Corruption, Tinubu. And is APC not saying they will fight corruption?........my foot.

A vote for APC is fast becoming a vote for corruption.

deemdeem:
Very useless bill. It should be junked.
Kudos to sharareporter.

are you here again to defend? Paid poster!