SERAP to Ganduje: reject fat pensions, luxury cars for life for Kano lawmakers

THE Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje to reject a bill for life pensions and brand new vehicles recently passed by lawmakers of the State House of Assembly.

The organisation urged the governor to prevail on the members to immediately drop the bill, and to honour their fiduciary duties imposed by the Constitution of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and Nigeria’s international anti-corruption obligations.

SERAP said it would take legal action nationally and internationally against the state government should the governor assent to the bill already passed by the lawmakers.

SERAP said it would resort to legal action to hold his government to account and ensure that “you uphold the solemn trust committed to you by the people of Kano”.

The request was contained in an open letter sent to the governor dated May 10, 2019 and signed by SERAP Deputy Director Kolawole Oluwadare.

The organisation urged Ganduje to “prevail on the lawmakers to subordinate their own interests to the public good, live on fair and equal terms with their fellow-citizens and not to use their legislative powers to convert public resources to their own benefit”.