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| Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin. |
Suspended House Member, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, representing APC- Kano Kiru-Bebeji Constituency, has forwarded the first batch of names of 50 members of the House of Representatives that have been involved in running cost allowances fraud in their entire stay in the House to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC).
Recall Mr. Jibrin gave the Presiding and Principal Officers 7 days "to make public the total amount they have received as running cost in their entire stay in the House, failure of which he will proceed with necessary legal action to compel them to make the total amount.
The former House of Representatives Chairman on Appropriation, gave this ultimatum in a letter titled: " BURDEN OF PROOF OF EVIDENCE: RUNNING COST OF HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES".
However, none of the House members have met Mr. Jibrin's condition, which has led him to send the first batch of names of 50 members of the House of Representatives to the anti-graft agency.
The first batch include Speaker Yakubu Dogara, Deputy Speaker Yusuf Lasun, Whip Alhassan Doguwa, Minority Leader Leo Ogor, Hon Herma Hembe, Hon Jagaba Adams, Hon Timothy Golu, Hon Yunusa Ahmad Abubakar, Hon Mukaila Olayiwola Kazzim, Hon Lynda Chuba Ikpeazu, Hon Abdulrazak Namdas, Hon Osai Nicolas Osai, among others.
Mr. Jibrin made the first batch of names of 50 members of the House of Representatives known in a press statement titled: "FINANCE MINISTER SHOULD STOP FURTHER PAYMENT OF RUNNING COST OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MEMBERS WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT".
Read the statement below..................................
FINANCE MINISTER SHOULD STOP FURTHER
PAYMENT OF RUNNING COST OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MEMBERS WITH IMMEDIATE
EFFECT
*Nigerians, MDA's and companies
should shun Reps invitations
*Forwarded first list of 50 Members
involved in running cost fraud to EFCC
*Urge Executive Arm to stand up to
possible blackmail from the House
After about 10 weeks since I
commenced exposing corruption in the House of Representatives, Speaker Dogara
and other accused persons are yet to respond to dozens of allegations bordering
on budget fraud, abuse of office and public trust and corruption. This is in
addition to my revelation that there exist chronic, deep-rooted, monumental and
systemic corruption in the House.
In the light of the foregoing, I
wish to make the following statements and demands:
1-I am also demanding the Minister
of Finance, Accountant General of the Federation, Attorney General of the
Federation and Clerk of National Assembly in exercising my right as a citizen
of Nigeria to stop with immediate effect further payments of running cost
allowances to Members of the House of Representatives because as an insider, I
know that most of such money have been and are diverted into private pockets.
There is no law in our country that is intended to protect corruption. So the
continuous payment of such money negates the spirit and genuine intention of
establishing such laws in the first place.
2- I am also calling on Nigerians,
companies, ministries, departments and agencies to shun invitations from the
House of Representatives until the House allows for a transparent investigation
of individual and systemic corruption allegations in collaboration with ongoing
external investigations by the police and anti-graft agencies and commence a
wide ranging reforms to restore the battered image of the House and strengthen
it to effectively discharge its constitutional mandate. As a Nigerian, you have
enough reason to shun them. I assure you that they can do nothing.
Why did you think the House could
not do anything to the former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke
towards the end of the 7th Assembly when she shunned and dared the House?
Think? I will come to that latter and narrate to you the story of how she met a
senior member of the body of Principal Officers of the 7th Assembly in the Aso
drive residence of a Lebanese business man, the deal that was struck and what
followed after in devastating consequences to the House and its image. A
complete shame!
3- As I promised and gave a 72-hours
ultimatum to the Principal Officers and one week to other members, I have
forwarded to the Anti-graft agencies the first batch of names of 50 members of
the House that are involved in running cost allowances fraud in their entire
stay in the House. I have broken the list into batches to make the work easier
for the anti-graft agencies. I will be sending the names in batches of 50 until
the list is exhausted. The first batch include Speaker Yakubu Dogara, Deputy
Speaker Yusuf Lasun, Whip Alhassan Doguwa, Minority Leader Leo Ogor, Hon Herma
Hembe, Hon Jagaba Adams, Hon Timothy Golu, Hon Yunusa Ahmad Abubakar, Hon
Mukaila Olayiwola Kazzim, Hon Lynda Chuba Ikpeazu, Hon Abdulrazak Namdas, Hon
Osai Nicolas Osai, among others.
I deliberately included the name of
Hon Osai Chairman Ethics Commiittee who wrote the report that suspended me from
the House on the grounds that I lied over my allegations that there exists
monumental systemic corruption in the House. After the anti graft agencies
investigate his running cost, the world will know whether I lied or told the
truth.
4-Nigerians must be very vigilant
because as an insider, I know how the House usually responds during period like
this. As you have started noticing, many investigative hearings and ad hoc
committees are springing up like mushrooms.
The investigative hearings are
intended to blackmail the executive arm and coax them not to act on the
allegations and the ad hoc committees are used to settle aggrieved members as
it provides avenues to collect bribes. You will also notice irrational
grandstanding over approval of MTEF/FSP and the budget or correspondence from
the President. All these are legislative antics employed by the House to use
the institution of the House to shield corrupt members. This is exactly what
Speaker Yakubu Dogara and his corrupt cabal are executing presently in the
House. The EFCC and the Police has severally been victims of this kind of evil
tactics by the House in the past.
I am therefore urging Nigerians and
the Executive Arm of government to stand up against any blackmail from the
Speaker Yakubu Dogara-led House of Representatives as they are all antics to
evade investigation and prosecution. I have said repeatedly that the Senate and
executive arm of government can rely on doctrine of necessity to bypass the
House in the face of such allegations of monumental corruption, which has been
described as the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the parliaments
around the world.
Finally, i wish to call on the
Federal Government to make me face the harshest punishment prescribed by our
laws if my allegations are found to be false.
God bless
Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin PhD MBA
APC-Kano
Kiru-Bebeji Federal Constituency
Kano.
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