Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has commended Governor Alex Otti for assenting to the Abia State of Nigeria Governors and Deputy Governors Pension Repeal Law. The law stopped life pensions for former governors and deputy governors of the state.
Obasanjo gave the commendation on Friday when he paid a visit to the governor in Nvosi Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area. “I saw the repeal of Abia pensions of former governors; you said to me that the pension scheme for former governors here is too outrageous. “It allows them to have a house in Abuja and elsewhere, and it allows them to cart away with whatever they can. “Yet the pensions of ordinary people from 2014 are unpaid and you came and said there will be an end to that rascality.
He urged the Abia governor to remain diligent and to pay adequate attention to infrastructure development. According to Obasanjo, the people of Abia were enterprising, adding that good leadership and adequate infrastructure would serve as a huge incentive for them. “I have always maintained that if there’s any zone in this country that could really give what I call regional development, it’s the Southeast, because you are almost monolithic in everything,' he said.
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