Unic Press UK: Abdulmumin Jibrin, the former chairman of the House of Representatives’ Appropriation Committee, says that he will never apologise to the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara.
I will not and will never apologize to a shameless fraud in high office who has glaringly abused public trust like speaker Dogara&3 others
— Abdulmumin Jibrin (@AbdulAbmJ) July 27, 2016
I am happy to announce that my lawyers have officially approached the EFCC and the ICPC /
— Abdulmumin Jibrin (@AbdulAbmJ) July 27, 2016
/towards working out a date for me to personally submit my petition against Speaker Yakubu Dogara, Deputy Speaker Yusuf Lasun /
— Abdulmumin Jibrin (@AbdulAbmJ) July 27, 2016
/ Whip Alhassan Doguwa and Minority Leo Ogor.
— Abdulmumin Jibrin (@AbdulAbmJ) July 27, 2016
I believe once a date is agreed with the anticorruption agencies /
— Abdulmumin Jibrin (@AbdulAbmJ) July 27, 2016
/ we would have begun the process of making these characters pay for abusing their office
— Abdulmumin Jibrin (@AbdulAbmJ) July 27, 2016
Jibrin who seems doleful over his removal as committee chairman had alleged that the principal officers of the House of Representatives’ – the speaker Yakubu Dogara and three others – fiddled with the 2016 budget. Last week, he formally wrote to the Inspector General of Police and the Director of Department of State Services (DSS) seeking that the affected principal officers’ be prosecuted.
Few days’ ago Jibrin said:
“My offence was asserting my independence and insisting we do the right thing at all times and expose corrupt people in the House. Lately, I openly disagree with some principal officers on the issue of immunity and budget issues. I still maintain that I will never support immunity. I strongly believe with every conviction that in cleaning up the budget system and considering what transpired during 2016 budget which I have all the facts documented, Speaker Dogara, Deputy Speaker Lasun, Whip Doguwa and Minority Leader Leo Ogor should resign.
“These members of the body of principal officers were not comfortable with my independent disposition and my refusal to cover up their unilateral decision to allocate to themselves N40 billion naira out of the N100 billion allocated to the entire National Assembly.
“The four of them met and took that decision. In addition to billions of wasteful projects running over N20billion they allocated to their constituencies. They must come out clean. My inability to admit into the budget almost N30 billion personal requests from Mr. Speaker and the three other principal officers also became an issue. I wish I could but where will I get such money in a tight budget year like this? I have every documented evidence to this effect.”
