Abia State Governor Dr Alex Otti Thursday accented to the bill passed on Tuesday by the state House of Assembly stopping the payment of pensions to past governors of the state and their deputies.
Chief Press Secretary to the governor Mr Kazie Uko disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.
He stated that the signed law which repealed the law for the payment of pensions to former governors and their deputies was tagged “Abia State Governors and Deputy Governors Pensions (Repeal) Law, 2024.”
Otti said, “even before this new law came into place, a lot of people who have followed our views in the national discuss understand that we were not going to continue the practice of paying pensions and allowances to this set of former government officials.”
However, some reports said that the past state governors and their deputies were not being paid pensions and challenged those who so alleged to produce their evidence.
