Zamfara State House of Assembly on Tuesday repealed the law which mandates the state government to pay pension and other entitlements of former governors and deputies, as well as Speakers and their deputies.
Presenting the bill before the House on Tuesday, House leader Faruk Musa Dosara, urged his colleagues to, as a matter of urgency, consider the repeal of the law which provided for the payment of huge sum to former political leaders in the state to the detriment of retired civil servants who have not been paid their entitlements over the years.
According to him, the past political leaders were collecting over N700,000m annually, which, he said, the present state economy could not accommodate for now.
Seconding the motion at the chamber, Tukur Jekada Birnin Tudu from Bakura local government, said the abolition of the law was necessary, arguing that “it is detrimental to the socio-economic wellbeing of our people.”
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After deliberations and contributions by House members, the Speaker, Nasiru Mu’azu Magarya, ordered the clerk of the House to give the bill first and second reading.
The House then went for a committee of whole meeting, after which the bill went for a third reading.
The House resolved that the bill has now been passed into law and would be sent to the governor for assent.
Recall that former governor of Zamfara, Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari recently wrote the incumbent governor Bello Matawalle demanding that the backlog of his pension of N10m a month be paid.
He claimed that the pension was not among the privileges the government can “truncate” without reason.
