The Lagos State House of Assembly says it will not repeal the state’s pensions law permitting former governors, including Bola Tinubu, Babatunde Fashola and other public office holders, to receive juicy pensions from state coffers.
He disclosed that Lagos Assembly would not go the way of the Zamfara Assembly which recently repealed the pension law for its former governors.
The Federal High Court in Lagos recently ordered the Federal Government to recover pensions collected by former governors now serving as ministers and members of the National Assembly.
Braimoh, however, faulted the court ruling that ordered Malami to take immediate legal action toward the abolishment of state laws that permits “former governors to enjoy governors’ emoluments while drawing normal salaries and allowances in their new political offices.”
According to him, the separation of powers as enshrined in the constitution empowers the legislature to make laws, the executive to implement and the judiciary to interpret the laws.
NAN