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Nigeria: Gov Goje Defends Executive Pension Benefit
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Leadership (Abuja)
15 May 2008
Posted to the web 15 May 2008
George Agba
Gombe State governor, Alhaji Muhammad Danjuma Goje, yesterday said he has paid all the pension arrears he inherited from his predecessor when he assumed office in 2003, just as he has also sustained a regular payment of all pensions up-to-date.
Goje who made this assertion through his senior special assistant on media and publicity, Adamu Musa Kumo, dismissed as insinuation that payment of entitlements under the executive pension law is at the expense of the development of Gombe State even as he said such insinuation "is nothing but malice".
In an exclusive chat with LEADERSHIP, Kumo said, "To put the records straight, it has become necessary to state in unequivocal terms that apart from the fact that Alhaji (Dr.) Muhammad Danjuma Goje paid all the pension arrears he inherited from the past administration, but also maintained a regular and up-to-date payment of all pensions as and when due.
"Therefore there are no retired public servants in Gombe State that are languishing in penury because their pensions are not paid. The records are there for anybody to see. As soon as any civil servant retires from service, he automatically commences enjoying his pension without any delay", he stated.
On the implementation of aspects of the Gombe State Executive Pension (Amendment) Law, 2008, he said most persons "have chosen to interpret this wrongly, turning them into a basis for the unwarranted criticism of His Excellency, Sarkin Yakin Gombe.
"In any case, the implementation of the Executive Pension law in Gombe including the payment of monetised cost of befitting houses to governors and deputy governors who served a term or two is in complete conformity with relevant laws of the land and the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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"Anybody who feels aggrieved is free to challenge it in a court of law. Such aggrieved persons do not have to wait until the incumbent governor leaves office in 2011".
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