By Ayo Kehinde
Mudashiru Obasa, Speaker
Agains expectations that Lagos state was set to cancel pensions for former governors and their deputies, the Lagos State House of Assembly has reduced the pension of former governors of the state by 50 per cent.
The Assembly in a statement issued on Thursday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker, Eromosele Ebhomeleon, said the decision was taken after the adoption of a report by the House Committee on Establishment, which recommended the reduction of pension for former governors and other affected officials by 50 per cent.
Other cuts in the new law are the removal of the provision that mandated houses in Abuja and Lagos for ex-governors, a reduction in the number of vehicles to be made available to former governors and their deputies and that the cars be changed every four years instead of the three years as obtained formerly.
The Speaker of the House, Mudashiru Obasa, suggested that former governors should get two vehicles (a car and a van) instead of three as recommended by the committee.
