{"id":44532,"date":"2020-11-10T13:13:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T12:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=44532"},"modified":"2020-11-10T13:26:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T12:26:28","slug":"sanwo-olu-to-abolish-pension-for-ex-govs-deputies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/sanwo-olu-to-abolish-pension-for-ex-govs-deputies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanwo-Olu To Abolish Pension For Ex-govs, Deputies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday announced his intention to repeal the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension Law 2007), which provides for payment of pension and other entitlements to former Governors and their Deputies.<\/p>\n<p>He made this known while presenting the 2021 budget to the Lagos State House of Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Sanwoolu said the bill would be sent to the Lagos Assembly for legislative approval.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>According to Sanwo-Olu, the abolition of pension for former governors and deputies will reduce the cost of governance.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cMr. Speaker and Honourable Members of the House, in light of keeping the costs of governance low and to signal selflessness in public service, we will be sending a draft executive bill to the House imminently for the repeal of the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension Law 2007), which provides for payment of pension and other entitlements to former Governors and their Deputies.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday announced his intention to repeal the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension Law 2007), which provides for payment of pension and other entitlements to former Governors and their Deputies.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":40183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7767],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-44532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-payment-of-pension-law-2007"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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