The International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law is very happy the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission decided to exclude General Ibrahim Babangida and other past military heads of state from the list of those to benefit from the statutory pensions scheme.

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the group, Mr. Emeka Umeagbalasi, said the exclusion of those that got into public by unconstitutional methods would serve as a lesson to future usurpers of public office.

Umeagbalasi also commended RMAFC’s insistence that bogus benefits smuggled into the Entitlements Act by the National Assembly for former legislators were not acceptable.

“The action of the National Assembly is despicable, selfish, materialistic, inflationary and sectional. The decision of former President Olusegun Obasanjo not to sign the bill on the advice of RMAFC is in order,” he said.