Reps bicker over bill to remove NASS from pension scheme
Members of the House of Representatives, yesterday, bickered amongst themselves over a bill to amend the Pension Reform Act, 2014, to exempt personnel of National Assembly Service from the contributory pension scheme and to establish the National Assembly Service Pensions Board. The bill sponsored by the chairman, Committee on National Planning and Economy Development, Olododo Cook penultimate week, passed at the committee of the whole. But listed to be read for the third time at yesterday, plenary session, the deputy chairman of the Committee on Pensions, Bamidele Salam raised a point of order, asking Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila to step it down. His argument was that the development would thrown up agitations by other groups of workers to ask for exemption from the scheme, thereby, significantly affecting the future of the scheme. Speaking in the same direction, another member of the Committee,Bem Mzondu intoned that protocols were breached in the passage of the bill. According to him,...