The Federal Government is to pay
N92.4million severance package to the 16 retired Permanent Secretaries
following their disengagement from the civil service.
A 12-month
breakdown of the above shows that each of the Permanent Secretaries will
receive 300 per cent of their annual basic salary of N1, 925,865.00
which amounts to N5, 777,595.00 for each of the 16 retired public
officers totalling N92,441,520.
Vanguard reports that that the retired civil
servants are to also receive a monthly pension of over N800,000
including allowances, following the fundamental review of the Nigerian
pensions system, some categories of top public servants like permanent
secretaries, police officers, professors and others, whose conditions of
service prior to the enactment of the Pension Reform Act, 2004 allowed
them to enjoy 100 per cent of their final pay as pension for life.
The 16 disengaged permanent secretaries are: Godknows Igali, Power;
Obinna John Chukwu, FCT; Mrs. Fatima Bamidele, Interior; Dr Tunji
Olaopa, Comm. & Tech; Ezekiel Oyebola Oyemomi, Women Affairs;
Ibikun Odusote Abimbola, OSGF; Baba Umar Farouk, Mines & Steel
Dev; Dauda Kigbu, Works; Mrs. Anastasia Mabi Daniel-Nwaobia, Min of
Finance; Ossi George Afemefuna, Land, Housing & Urban Dev; Henry
Edumudoh Akpan, OSGF.
Others are: Mr. Taiye Haruna, Petroleum; Aliyu Ismaila, Defence;
Dr. James Obiegbu, Police Affairs; Linus Awute, Health, and Mrs. Nkechi
Ejele, Tourism, Culture & National Orientation.
Vanguard
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