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Governor\nBello Mohammed Matawalle of Zamfara state has accused the immediate past\ngovernor of the state, Abdul-Aziz Yari Abubakar, of paying himself N360 million\nfrom the state pension funds shortly before he left office.
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\nThe\ngovernor said this in Wednesday while assenting to a law stopping jumbo\nallowances for former governors, deputies, speakers and their deputies in the\nstate.
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\nThe\nSpeaker of the state House Assembly, Nasiru Muazu Magarya, and other principal\nofficers of the House had brought a bill before the governor for assent.
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\nMatawalle,\nwhile assent the bill, said, \u201cIf you could remember former governor Yari had\nsent a letter to me demanding that his N10 million monthly upkeep allowances be\npaid and he was even threatening to take me to court should I fail to pay the\nmoney.
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\n\u201cI called\nmy deputy, the state assembly speaker and his deputy and asked them whether they\nneed such mind-boggling allowances and they all answered in negative. Then, we\ndecided to repeal the law backing the payment and I have assented to it.
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\n\u201cOur\nsuccessors will not find it easy to come up with such obnoxious law to pillage\nthe little resources of the state in the future. There is no reason whatsoever\nthe state could afford to pay the past leaders a whopping sum of N702 million\nannually to the detriment of dying pensioners in the state,\u201d Matawalle said.
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\n\u201cIt is on\nthe record that the backlog of pension and gratuity for local government\nworkers and primary school teachers left behind by Abdul-Aziz Yari\u2019s\nadministration stands at N3billion while that of the state government retired\ncivil servants also stands at N3billion. \u201cWhat moral justification could be\noffered for such a Jumbo package for a select few when the social index has\nconsistently indicated that the majority of our population lives in abject\npoverty?\u201d he queried.
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\nAccording\nto the governor, for anyone to become governor or attain any top position in\nthe state, or means they were already financially well to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle of Zamfara state has accused the immediate past governor of the state, Abdul-Aziz Yari Abubakar, of paying himself N360 million from the state pension funds shortly before he left office. The governor said this in Wednesday while assenting to a law stopping jumbo allowances for former governors, deputies, speakers and their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n