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Wow! N100 million for a governor's retirement medical allowance? Incredible!
The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has approved the N100m bill Governor Godwill Akpabio presented to the House for approval.The bill seeks:
1. A pension for life at a rate equivalent to the salary of the incumbent governor to former governors and ex-deputy governors.2. It provide the former governor, provision for funds to employ a cook, chauffeurs and security guards at a sum not exceeding N5m per month and N2.5m for the deputy.
3. The former governor would also be entitled to a free medical services for his person and spouse at a sum not exceeding N100m per annum and N50m for former deputy governor.
4. The bill also sought to provide for the former governor a befitting accommodation not below a five-bed room maisonette in either Abuja or Akwa Ibom for governor.
5. Yearly accommodation allowance of 300 per cent of annual basic salary for the deputy governor of Akwa Ibom.
6. The former governor would also receive a severance gratuity of 300 per cent of annual basic salary as of the time the former leaves office.
7. After heated debate by members, the deputy leader Dr. Ekaete Okon (PDP), moved a motion for the bill to be read the third time and passed into law.
My God...then who says this country is poor?
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