Mimiko signs Contributory Pension, Land Use Charges bills into law

Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, yesterday signed the controversial Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) and Land Use Charges bills into law.
The CPS bill is being criticised by the State workers who had earlier protested against it at the State House of Assembly.
Governor Mimiko said the Bill was passed and signed into law in the interest of the civil servants who will benefit immensely from the scheme.

Addressing government functionaries at the Cocoa banquet hall of the government house in Akure, Mimiko said the poor sensitization of workers on the benefits of the bill was the reason behind the controversy.
The governor who further revealed that the Contributory Pension
Scheme was a matter of law which every workforce in the state must key into, denied insinuation that it was another means of taxing civil servants in the state.
Many of the Civil Servants had alleged that the introduction of the bill was to further ‘impoverish’ them with a vow to use every legal means within their capacity to stop the State government by grounding all its activities if what they described as “quick and forceful commencement of implementation of the scheme” without their consent was not reversed.
While promising that his administration would be transparent in the execution of the Scheme, Mimiko commended Labour leaders in the state for their patience and cooperation since the inception of his administration.
Earlier, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in the state, Eyitayo Jegede commended the lawmakers for the quick passage of the bill and assured the people that the Scheme would appeal to the social economic well being of the state.