Abdulmumin Jibrin, former chairman of the house representatives committee on appropriations, says with the huge sums allegedly moved from the house account on Yakubu Dogara’s instruction, he hopes that the speaker is arrested before he “steals everything”.
Shortly after Dogara issued a statement on Saturday, denying the allegations that he padded the 2016 budget, Jibrin took to Twitter to launch yet another attack from the Kano Lawmaker.
“We must all thank the corrupt speaker Dogara for finally apologising to Nigerians for the multiple lies he has shamelessly been dishing out,” he said.
Jibrin added that for the apology to “make sense”, Dogara and the three other principal officers accused needed to step down for internal and external investigations so that various reforms can “commence to restore the battered image of the house”.
“Same speaker who few days ago said padding is not an offense and he can not be investigated. I guess it’s the heat, it will only get worst.
“Unfortunately, maybe its easier for Dogara to explain his role in the fraudulent multi billion naira cars contract by his fronts as chairman house services committee.”
Read the statement below…
“We must all thank the corrupt Speaker Dogara for finally apologising to Nigerians for the multiple lies he has shamelessly been dishing out.
“This apology will make better sense if Speaker Dogara and the 3 others take further step to reconvene the House immediately and step aside.
“So that external and internal investigation and various reforms by the new Speaker can commence to restore the battered image of the House
“Same Speaker who few days ago said Padding is not an offense and he can not be investigated. I guess it’s the heat, it will only get worst, unfortunately.
“May be its easier for Dogara to explain his role in the fraudulent multi billion naira cars contract by his fronts as Chairman House services Committee.
“This same man we call Speaker “no 4 citizen” is involved in all cases of fraudulent contracts and money laundry in the House since 2007.
“With the massive amount been moved from the House accounts on Dogara’s instruction, I hope he will be arrested before he steals everything!.. Statement concluded…
Meanwhile, the former chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has filed a suit in a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) court, seeking to stop any attempt by leadership of the House to suspending him.
Following his removal on July 20, Jibrin came up with several allegations against Speaker Yakubu Dogara, his deputy Yusufu Suleimon Lasun, chief whip, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, minority leader, Leo Ogar and nine other members, accusing them of perpetrating corruption in the 2016 budget.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) had, in an attempt to find a solution to the crisis, barred Dogara and Jibrin from making further public comments on the matter.
However, sensing that he could face suspension from the House, Jibrin rushed to the FCT court on Thursday.
In the suit: No. FHC/ABJ/CS/539, Jibrin joined Dogara, Lasun, Doguwa, Ogor, the House of Representatives, Clerk to the House, the FCT police commissioner, and 10 others.
Jibrin is among other things seeking an order of the court stopping the House from suspending him pending the determination of the substantive suit.
In an affidavit deposed in the court, Jibrin said if the respondents/defendants “are not immediately restrained, he would be suspended as a member of the House and this will greatly prejudice him and thousands of his constituents who rely on him to afford them their due representation in the federal legislature.”
In the said affidavit, the sacked appropriations committee chairman said he was aware that they held meetings wherein they agreed to urgently reconvene the House which is on recess with a desperate agenda to suspend.
