Nigerian Trade Union activist and labour leader, Comrade Issa Aremu, has said that the law that makes provision for the payment of pension and other entitlements to former elected governors will lead to the collapse of the public treasury.
While describing the pension law as illegal and unsustainable.
Aremu who frowned at such law explained that it is obvious that politicians are now playing politics of the corrupt and hence the need to return back to the politics of ideology that is about service to the people.
The trade Union activist asserted this in Kaduna at the weekend, where he noted that the nation is becoming very unequal society, adding that the riches are becoming richer, while the poor is becoming poorer.
” I have to commend the governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-olu for being courageous to remove the illegal pension law for former governors of the state. I urged other governors to follow suit. We must know that governance is all about service to the people, ” he said.
Aremu urged governments to be sensitive to the plight of the people, while also advising that the policy of deregulation should also be regulated by the government in order not to create another round of crisis.
” This is a time that we are just coming out of palliatives distribution crisis which shows that there is poverty in the land and we are increasing the petroleum pump price. I felt so bad and I am surprised in the increase because the exchange rate is still stable and there is drop in the price of crude oil. So, I expected that the pump price should go down and not the other way round, ” Aremu lamented.
While extolling the virtues of the first Republican governor of the defunct Kaduna state, late Balarabe Musa, Aremu said, he was the richest ex-governor in the area of core values and being the promoter of good governance.
He explained further that Balarabe Musa died at a critical period of the nation building. ” This is the time that the ruling class must rededicated themselves to selfless governance, ” Aremu emphasized.
