The governor made this statement on Wednesday, while assenting to a law stopping jumbo allowances for former governors, deputies, speakers and their deputies in the state.
The Speaker of the Zamfara State House Assembly, Nasiru Muazu Magarya, and other principal officers of the House had brought a bill before the governor for assent.
Matawalle, while assent the bill, said, “If you could remember former governor Yari had sent a letter to me demanding that his ₦10 million monthly upkeep allowances be paid and he was even threatening to take me to court should I fail to pay the money.
“I called my deputy, the state assembly speaker and his deputy and asked them whether they need such mind-boggling allowances and they all answered in negative. Then, we decided to repeal the law backing the payment and I have assented to it.
“Our successors will not find it easy to come up with such obnoxious law to pillage the little resources of the state in the future. There is no reason whatsoever the state could afford to pay the past leaders a whopping sum of ₦702 million annually to the detriment of dying pensioners in the state,” Matawalle said.
“It is on the record that the backlog of pension and gratuity for local government workers and primary school teachers left behind by Abdulaziz Yari’s administration stands at ₦3 billion while that of the state government retired civil servants also stands at ₦3 billion. “What moral justification could be offered for such a Jumbo package for a select few when the social index has consistently indicated that the majority of our population lives in abject poverty?” he queried.
According to the governor, for anyone to become governor or attain any top position in the state, or means they were already financially well to do.
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