National Assembly Approves life Pension for President and Vice President In New Constitution

       

The National Assembly have approved a life  pension for any person who have serve as a president,vice president ,Senate President,Deputy Senate President ,Speaker and Deputy speaker of house of Representative in the just concluded 1999 Constitutional amendment.

But only applied to any of the leader that completed their tenure without impeachment.

The motion  presented to the Senate floor by the Chairman  Senate  Committee on the review of the 1999 constitution Senator Ekweremadu also make it mandatory for the President to Address a joint session of the National Assembly once a year on the State of the Nation has been forwarded to the President for Assent

The amended Clause read: “Any person who has held office as President or Deputy President of the Senate, Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives,  shall be entitled to pension for life at a rate equivalent to the annual salary of the incumbent President or Deputy President  of the Senate, Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, provided that such a person was not removed from office by the process of impeachment or for breach of any of the provisions of this Constitution.

“The president shall attend a joint meeting of the National Assembly once a year to deliver an address in respect of the state of the nation. He may attend any joint meeting of the National Assembly, either to deliver an address on national affairs including fiscal measures, or to make such statement on the policy of government as he considers to be of national importance