Embattled former
chairman of the House of Representatives House Committee on Appropriation,
Abdulmumin Jibrin, has released a statement reacting to the allegations leveled
against him by the House of Representatives. The house through its spokesperson
Abdulrazak Namdas, today accused Jibrin of engaging in fraudulent
activities
while he oversaw the appropriation committee. Jibrin on his facebook page this
evening released a statement replying the House members. Read the statement
below:
SPEAKER YAKUBU DOGARA
AND OTHER MEMBERS OF HIS SHAMELESS QUARTET ARE STILL LIVING IN THE PAST
I have read the
statement issued by Hon Namdas who is being used illegally by the QUARTET of
Speaker Dogara and 3 others to give an impression that the entire House will
support and suppress corruption. I have raised serious allegations of
corruption against them and rather than raise corruption allegations against me
and defend themselves against the ones I raised, they are busy accusing me of
immaturity and some lame and ambitious stories and compendium of lies they
choose to tell in a complete waste of time for the National Assembly press
Corp.
In any case, unlike
the 4 of them, I will respond to all the issues they raised in due course, God
grace. I have called the 4 of them very corrupt public officers. I stand by my
statement that they have grossly abuse their offices and public trust. Can they
look at me and say same? Iam glad I now have the opening that I so badly crave
to expose corruption in the House. If you have anything on me, feel free and
bring it on! Nigerians should read the statement of Hon Namdas and judge for
themselves. You will clearly see people who are desperately looking for
something to nail me. Let me reemphasis that I did nothing wrong and committed
no offense. We cant just agree because they are corrupt and Iam not. If they
have problem with my bluntness and courage, Iam sorry, Iam not going to change!
To Speaker Yakubu
Dogara, Deputy Speaker Yusuf Lasun, Whip Alhassan Doguwa and Minority Leader
Leo Ogor. The big questions and grievous allegations our colleagues Hon Members
of House of Representatives, Security and Anti corruption agencies fellow
Nigerias and as the No. 4 citizen of the Federal republic of Nigeria, Africans
and the world at large are watching and asking you to answer these twenty
questions;
1. Why did you take
the decision to fraudulently shortchange the House by taken away 40 billion
naira out of the 100 billion naira allocated for constituency projects and
distributing same to yourself and others without the approval of the House?
2. Why did you
approach the former house appropriation chairman with written personal requests
and list of about 30 billion naira to be inserted into the 2016 budget and his
inability to get that done caused a major rift between you all and him?
3. Why did you
insert wasteful projects for your various constituencies worth about 20billion
naira despite the former appropriation chairman professional advice against
such?
4. Why did you
ignore his complaint to you that just about 10 standing committees of the House
inserted over 2000 projects worth 284 billion naira?
5. Why did you take
away the appropriation committee secretariat on two occasions where several
insertions were made into the budget which created avoidable tension during the
budget process?
6. Why did you
direct the former appropriation chair which he rejected to create a strange
line item in the service wide vote to allow for a 20 billion naira insertion
into the budget under the name of NASS using a former PDP Senator and top
politician?
7. Why are you
trying to scam members with a fraudulent arrangement to deduct monthly from
money meant for members office running cost to fund a so called mortgage
arrangement?
8. Why did you abuse
your office in a conflict of interest directed an agency to grant loans and a
construction company to work on your Asokoro plot and arrange frequent private
meetings with heads of MDA's?
9. why did you
allocate to yourselves the entire 20% inputs reserved for the House after the
harmonization exercise?
10. How much did you
collect for rent of house and guests houses and how much did Hon Herma Hembe
steal from the money that caused the outburst of Lasun?
11. why are you
trying to drag the entire House and illegally using the official spokesman of
the House into allegations that were made on you and the 3 others ONLY?
12. Why did you
consistently block the former chairman appropriation from briefing Hon members
and denied him his right to be heard by his colleagues on this matter?
13. Why did you
scuttle his effort and Sen Goje’s to assist Mr. President after working so hard
consulting ministers on the budget out of envy and vindictiveness that Mr.
President granted them audience without you?
14. Why did you
insist and ensured that the immunity clause for the House principal officers is
inserted into our agenda despite huge resistance from members and the general
public?
15. Why did you
connive with 5 other members of the House to use some elements of the Nigerian
police and thugs in an attempt to blackmail, kidnap, intimidate and silence him
and his family?
16. Why are you
desperately going round media houses offering money to silent the statements of
the former appropriation chairman?
17. Why has it taken
you this long to put together such a lame storyt of why you "sacked"
the former appropriation chairman after admitting on national TV that he
resigned?
18. Is it true that
you left a huge mess and allegations of money laundering against you as
chairman House services both in the 6th and 7th House?
19. Why have you
refused to open up the financial dealings and details of internal budget of the
House to your colleagues, Hon members?
20. WHY DO YOU HAVE
PROBLEMS WITH RECONVENING THE HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO ALLOW FOR AN INDEPENDENT
INVESTIGATION ON THE ALLEGATIONS? source
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