It has been reported that the National Assembly approved on Thursday, February 19, 2015 life pension for the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. This should not be allowed because of many reasons.
First, the federal legislators are the highest paid in the world despite the fact that they are part-time legislators who go on recess for over four months in the year and do not sit on Mondays and Fridays!
If the President of the Senate, David Mark, is put on pension, he will be on a second pension after retiring from the army as a senior officer! Will he now retire twice from the same government?
The same can be said of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Legislation is not a full life work that should warrant life pension like civil servants who serve for at least 15 years. People of goodwill should look into this before we are ripped off. The same is the issue of life pension and fantastic entitlements by the governors.
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