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former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Mr.
Abdulmumin Jibrin, who was allegedly sacked in connection with his role in the
padding of the 2016 budget , said there was more to the action on him.
Jibrin,
an All Progressives Congress lawmaker from Kano State, claimed in a statement
that he was being victimised by the Speaker Mr. Yakubu Dogara.
According
to him, the Speaker Dogara was after him because he objected to a request he (Dogara)
made that he (Jibrin) should allocate projects worth N40bn to him in the 2016
budget.
He
alleged that the projects would have been shared among four principal officers,
namely, Dogara; the Deputy Speaker, Mr. Yussuff Lasun; the Whip, Mr. Alhassan
Ado-Doguwa; and the Minority Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor.
Jibrin,
who demanded the immediate resignation of Dogara and the three other principal
officers, added that the four met and took the “unilateral” decision to request
the inclusion of the N40bn projects in the budget.
According
to Jibrin, when he was approached by the four with the information, he declined
to oblige them in a bid to assert the independence of his committee.
Jibrin
said, “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 N40bn out of the N100bn allocated to the
entire National Assembly.
“The
four of them met and took that decision, in addition to billions of wasteful
projects running to over 20bn, they allocated to their constituencies. They
must come out clean. My inability to admit into the budget almost 30bn personal
requests from Mr. Speaker and the three other principal officers, also became
an issue".
However,
in a response, the leadership of the House described Jibrin’s allegations as an
“afterthought” just to express his anger over his sacking.
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