Nigeria's Ex-Governors Under Scrutiny for Receiving Double Pay

A Lagos-based rights group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, is suing the government for its "failure to stop former governors, now serving as senators and ministers, from receiving double pay and life pensions as well as recover the over N40 billion of public funds unduly drawn by the public officers".

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