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Lagos lawmakers oppose stoppage of pension for Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode, others

  Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday opposed the total scrapping of the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension Law 2007), which ensures payment of pensions and other benefits to former Governors Bola Tinubu, Babatunde Fashola and Akinwunmi Ambode and their deputies. The Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday read for a second time a bill that seeks to repeal the law. The new bill which was debated on the floor of the House at a sitting presided over by the Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, is titled ‘ A bill for a law to repeal the law to provide for the payment of pensions and other fringe benefits to public office holders in Lagos State and for other connected matters’. The lawmakers argued that it would not be too good to repeal the law in its entirety as there were some important sections and stipulations that should be considered. Speaking concerning the bill, Oluyinka Ogundimu (Agege 2), explained that the bill is to ensure the stoppage of pensions to governors...