Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, has signed into law a bill to repeal the payment of pensions to former governors and their deputies.
The governor through the signing of the Executive Bill into law cancelled a law enacted by the immediate past administration.
The Executive Bill, which was passed by the State House of Assembly on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, is now known as the “Abia State Governors and Deputy Governors Pensions (Repeal) Law, 2024.”
Signing the new law on Thursday, Otti said government is not about self-interest, adding that self-interest destroys government.
A statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Kazie Uko, 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”.
