The Lagos State House of Assembly has enacted a law reducing the pension to former governors and other officials by 50 per cent.
The legislative house approved the report of its Committee on Establishment which recommended the reduction of the pension to former governors and other officials by 50 per cent.
The committee also recommended expunging the provision of providing houses in Abuja and Lagos for the former governors, as stipulated in an earlier law in the state.
The report reduced the number of vehicles to be made available to ex-governors and their deputies.
Speaker Mudashiru Obasa suggested that former governors should get two vehicles – a car and a van – instead of three, as recommended by the committee.
He also suggested that the amended Bill should provide that the cars be changed every four years, instead of the three years recommended in the report.
He told the lawmakers “By virtue of my office, I have seen former Speakers who we intervened in their lives because of the situations they found themselves outside office. We have also seen former governors in a very bad situation.
