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?
