Outspoken Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana (SAN) has condemned the proposed life pension and immunity for National Assembly leaders.
Femi Falana (SAN)
Popular Lagos Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN); a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, has described the proposed life pension and immunity for Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, as “insensitive, irrational and immoral.”
Falana called on Nigerians to rise against the proposal which is an immunity and life pension for the presiding officers which was proposed by some senators at a retreat on constitution review organised by the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Constitution Review in Lagos on Saturday.
The senior advocate said the proposal at a time many state governments were unable to pay workers’ salaries depicted high level of insensitivity.
“The proposals for immunity and life pension for the principal officers of the National Assembly are insensitive, irrational and immoral.
“Indeed, it is the height of insensitivity for legislators to propose life pension for their leaders at a time that workers are owed arrears of salaries in many states of the federation.
“The proposal to confer immunity on legislators is provocative, to say the least. No serious nation can grant immunity to legislators who have been linked with criminal diversion of public funds, forgery and rape.
“We can assure the concerned members of the public that the satanic proposals of the legislators will not succeed. It is pertinent to inform the legislators that the members of the human rights community have resolved to mobilise the Nigerian people to reject both proposals.”