SERAP Sues Thirty Six States Over Pension Paid To Ex-Governors,Deputies

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project(SERAP), has filed a new suit against 36 States over life pension being paid to Ex-governors and their deputy governors.

In the new suit, SERAP called on the court to compel the 36 States in the country to publish the details of the amount they have paid to ex-governors and ex-deputy governors since return to democracy since 1999.

The suit is also praying the court to order the 36 States to publish the names of their ex-governors and ex-deputy governors earning life pension.

SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oludare, made this known in a statement on Sunday that the new suit followed the refusal of the 36 States to honour a Freedom of Information request made from them by SERAP.

Oludare said that SERAP would like the court to make a mandamus order to compel the governors of the 36 States to “publish names and number of former governors and other officials that have received pensions and the total amounts received between 1999 and 2019 and have at the same time served and/or serving as members of the National Assembly.”

He said SERAP was concerned that payment of life pension to ex-governors and ex-deputy governors amounted to using public funds for the private interest of politicians.

He said: “Only two governors —Delta State Governor, Mr Ifeanyi Okowa, and Kwara State Governor, Mr Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq— have responded to the FoI requests.”

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