The recent passage and signing into law of the pension bill 2014 of Akwa Ibom State has attracted the wrought of the National Association of Nigerian Students. The NANS Zone B, according to a press release, condemns in its entirety the recent Governor and Deputy Governor Pension Bill 2014, hurriedly passed into law by Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly and its consequent assent by the State Governor (the Chief Beneficiary), within a short space of 7 days. They associations is therefore calling for an immediate amendment of the law, as it clearly shows an insensitiveness to the plight of the ordinary Akwa Ibomites and it’s economic wellbeing.
Comr. Pedro Obi; the Public Relations Officer of the organisation, speaking at University of Benin during a programme marking this year’s Democracy Day for Nigerian Students, posited that Governor Godswill Akpabio has betrayed the trust of the ordinary Nigerians in Akwa Ibom
State, whom are the tax payers, to have ever planed such a wicked law in a State were the cost of education is increasing on a daily basis and high rate of unemployment rate is equally on the high side.
The action of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly is a clear case of a rubber stamp institution, as they have clearly failed in their duties, which does not tell good of us and further diminishes our hope as a growing Democratic Nation. Isn’t it an irony for someone that put in 8 years of service to be claiming 200 million annually, while another that put in over 30 years to be claiming peanut? Is Governor Godswill Akpabio telling the World that some citizen is more superior than others or what?
speaking further, the NANS PRO stated the body acknowledges the Governor’s transformation in the area of infrastructural development, but stated that this law is insensitive and should be amended, as there is absolutely no justification for its passage. The body also informed the governor that Leadership is a call to service and for no reason, must it be mistaken for another venture. They call on all well-meaning Nigerians, Civil Society Organisation and all men of goodwill to rise and say NO to this Anti-Peoples’ Law to avoid making it a norm in our Society.
