A tale of two speakers

Does it not seem like robbing Peter to pay Paul if  the Lagos State House of Assembly  reduces pensions of former governors in the state only to slyly add the names of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker to the Pension list?

Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa  told civil society organizations. that the House is amending the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension) Law. The amendment is titled, Public Office Holders (Payment of Pensions) Amendment Bill, 2016.

“The bill has been read first time and awaiting second reading. The intention of this bill the legislator claims is to save taxpayers’ money while addressing the cost implication of some parts of the law.

  The law allows a former governor and the deputy to have a house each in Lagos and Abuja, while both governor and the deputy are also entitled to six and five vehicles respectively.

  The amendment seeks to ensure that both the governor and the deputy will be limited to a house in Lagos where they served, as well as have three and two vehicles respectively.

  The amendment also seeks to give due recognition to the legislature by allowing the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker to benefit from the pension scheme.

 In Abia State, the Speaker was involved in fracas that led to the hospitalization of Federal Road Safety officers. Speaker, Chikwendu Kalu has allegedly ordered the shooting of officers who stopped a vehicle that was transporting his wife. The driver of the vehicle refused to stop that the designated point only to stop at a distance. The speaker was summoned and order the shooting.The police allegedly shot an officer of the FRSC and other officers on the beat were also beaten up.