{"id":141686,"date":"2024-01-22T10:59:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T10:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/22\/falana-calls-for-end-to-jumbo-pensions-received-by-ex-governors\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T10:59:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T10:59:58","slug":"falana-calls-for-end-to-jumbo-pensions-received-by-ex-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/22\/falana-calls-for-end-to-jumbo-pensions-received-by-ex-governors\/","title":{"rendered":"Falana Calls For End To Jumbo Pensions Received By Ex-Governors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_881103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-881103\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-881103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot_20230603_071024.jpg\" alt=\"Femi Falana\" width=\"1080\" height=\"787\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-881103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Femi Falana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana, has called for an end to \u201cjumbo pensions\u201d recieved by some former Governors in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, while some State Governors voted themselves large pension payments and allowances, they failed to pay their former workers\u2019 pensions and gratuities during their time in office.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman, Alliance on Surviving Covid-19 and Beyond, in a statement, however noted that Nigeria can no longer afford to pay scandalous pensions to ex-Governors while workers are owed arrears of meagre pensions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Emulate Gbenga Daniel And Dankwambo, Reject Double Pension \u2013 Falana To Akpabio, Ex-Governors In National Assembly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The statement titled, \u201cEnd Scandalous Pension for Ex-Governor Now,\u201d partly read: \u201cMany state governors voted themselves humongous pension payments and allowances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the same governors chose not to pay the pensions and gratuities for their former workers whilst they were in office. Not less than 20 of them are in the Senate where they also receive jumbo salaries and allowances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLagos was the first state to implement a pension law for its former governors. The Lagos State Pension for Ex-Governors was enacted in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince then, the majority of states adopted the Lagos model. But the pension laws for Lagos, Akwa Ibom, and Rivers states are the most scandalous.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-1850984840\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Femi Falana Human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana, has called for an end to \u201cjumbo pensions\u201d recieved by some former Governors in Nigeria. According to him, while some State Governors voted themselves large pension payments and allowances, they failed to pay their former workers\u2019 pensions and gratuities during their time in office. The Chairman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Falana Calls For End To Jumbo Pensions Received By Ex-Governors - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/22\/falana-calls-for-end-to-jumbo-pensions-received-by-ex-governors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Falana Calls For End To Jumbo Pensions Received By Ex-Governors - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Femi Falana Human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana, has called for an end to \u201cjumbo pensions\u201d recieved by some former Governors in Nigeria. 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