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Budget Padding: Dogara, Lasun, Others Must Resign – Jibrin by shaddoww: 7:10am On Jul 22, 2016 |
Ousted Chairman of the House Committee on
Appropriations opened a can of worms
Thursday concerning the controversial padding
of the2016 budget.
According to him Speaker Dogara, Deputy
Speaker Lasun, Whip Doguwa and minority
Leader Leo Ogor should resign because they
allocated N40 billion to themselves in the last
budget appropriation.
“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 40billion naira out of the
100billion allocated to the entire National
Assembly,” he said.
Giving an insight into his sack/ resignation he
said: “I am obliged to make further statement
after listening to the full statement of Speaker
Yakubu Dogara on why I had to leave as
Chairman Appropriation. It is a fact I went up
to the Speaker and told him clearly I wanted
to leave. He confirmed this in his statement
but it appeared he wished he had fired me
instead of my personal decision to step down.
“Thereafter I proceeded to my office. I was
therefore not surprised when an aide of mine
walked into my office to inform me that the
Speaker had announced my departure. I was
relieved and went straight to address the
press and released a statement. It was only
later in the evening while monitoring the news
that I watched the full statement he made on
the floor. Speaker Dogara’s statement was a
complete misrepresentation of the facts, false,
mischievous, unfair and a calculated attempt
to bring my name to disrepute, blackmail,
silence and use me as a scape goat.
“The plan is to execute it just before the
recess so that by the time we return it would
have been buried and the issue forgotten. Mr
Speaker, this issue will never be swept under
the carpet. We are closing for recess with it
and we shall commence the next session with
this issue. This was the last option they had
after every attempt to find something to nail
me failed.
“It is a known fact that I am a very blunt
person by nature. I don’t know how to
pretend. I don’t do eye service neither will I
ever be a sycophant. I don’t give returns. I
just do my job faithfully and dedicatedly. My
offence was asserting my independence and
insisting that we do the right thing at all times
and expose corrupt people in the House.
”Lately I openly disagreed with some principal
officers on the issue of immunity for
Lawmakers and budget issues. I still
maintained I will never support immunity. I
strongly believe with every conviction that in
cleaning up the budgeting system and
considering what transpired during 2016
budget which I have all the facts documented,
“Speaker Dogara, Deputy Speaker Lasun, Whip
Doguwa and minority Leader Leo Ogor should
resign. 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 40billion naira out of the
100billion allocated to the entire National
Assembly.
“The four of them met and took that decision.
In addition to billions of wasteful projects
running over 20 billion they allocated to their
constituencies. They must come out clean.
“My inability to admit into the budget almost
30 billion personal requests from Mr. Speaker
and the 3 other principal officers also became
an issue. I have every documented evidence
to this effect. After the submission of the first
version of the budget which was returned by
Mr. President, I briefed members in executive
session and told them as agreed at our pre
budget meeting with chairmen and deputy
chairmen of standing committees,
“We simply adopted their reports with little
amendments. No body faulted my submission.
Members insisted they must know how the
N100 billion was allocated. I told them the
truth. Since after that meeting, Mr Speaker
with the support of the three other principal
officers effectively blocked me from briefing
members, ensured I was not at the last
executive session and refused to investigate
issues I raised that I believe must be
addressed if we intend to build a better
budget system for the House.
“I gave Mr. Speaker statistics of 2000 new
projects introduced into the budget by less
than 10 committee chairmen without the
knowledge of their committee members he did
nothing about it because he was part of the
mess yet he is talking about improving the
budget system.
“I did nothing wrong. I worked within the rules
of the House and instructions of Mr. Speaker.
During the budget period, Mr. President
graciously granted myself and Sen. Goje
audience. It was a very good meeting.
Speaker Dogara took it extremely personal
that we saw the president without his
knowledge and went on to scuttle all our
efforts to help the president during the budget
process because he wanted to be seen by the
president as the only good man.
“He forgot that he sees heads of MDA’s daily
which he enjoys doing more than his job as
Speaker for reasons best known to him
anyway, without Mr. President’s knowledge.
That is how petty and narrow minded Dogara
can be. A coward, hypocrite and pretender of
the highest order. Mr President must be very
careful with him. He wines with Mr. President
and dines with Mr. Presidents enemies.
“I am glad that I am finally free from his
emotional blackmail of constantly trying to
make me see my appointment as
appropriation chairman as a favour. He has
failed to realise that I came a long way and
even attained chairman finance when he was
chairman House services before this
appointment.
“Seeing as the Speaker claimed that they
have taken the decision or were going to take
decision to replace me, he now has a
responsibility to tell the world why they took
or were going to take such decision. I
challenge them to tell the world why? I will be
releasing a more detailed statement in due
course. Meanwhile, I intend to explore all
internal avenues of the House to brief my
colleagues in detail and testify against
Speaker Dogara, Deputy Lasun, Whip Doguwa
and Minority leader Leo Ogor on why they
should resign.
“If I am not allowed to exercise my privilege, I
shall consider legal options. I can no longer
bear the brunt of abuses and baseless
allegations keeping quiet all in the name of
“confidentiality” expected of an appropriation
chairman.
“I will not allow anybody no matter how highly
placed to destroy my life as intended by the
full statement of Speaker Yakubu Dogara. Now
Nigerians will see clearly the ulterior motive
behind the desperate moves for immunity for
principal officers of the National Assembly.” www.thenationonlineng.net |
Re: Budget Padding: Dogara, Lasun, Others Must Resign – Jibrin by BeeBeeOoh(m): 7:12am On Jul 22, 2016 |
I am just watching Nigeria with keen interest |
Re: Budget Padding: Dogara, Lasun, Others Must Resign – Jibrin by Mynd44: 7:15am On Jul 22, 2016 |
Re: Budget Padding: Dogara, Lasun, Others Must Resign – Jibrin by RZArecta(m): 7:24am On Jul 22, 2016 |
You knew all these since yet you kept quiet while the budget was padded and re padded again then passed into law. You didn't deem it fit to talk all these while abi ? You waited till the year was almost over before coming out to start claiming saint obi the only good guys . Please don't disturb our eardrums with your wailing abeg |
Re: Budget Padding: Dogara, Lasun, Others Must Resign – Jibrin by ChappyChase: 7:28am On Jul 22, 2016 |
BeeBeeOoh:This country na joke! |
Re: Budget Padding: Dogara, Lasun, Others Must Resign – Jibrin by BeeBeeOoh(m): 7:30am On Jul 22, 2016 |
ChappyChase:a very real one for that matter |
Re: Budget Padding: Dogara, Lasun, Others Must Resign – Jibrin by ChappyChase: 7:41am On Jul 22, 2016 |
BeeBeeOoh:You sure sey my ancestors no oFfend God, why I end up for this crappy country? |
Re: Budget Padding: Dogara, Lasun, Others Must Resign – Jibrin by BeeBeeOoh(m): 7:44am On Jul 22, 2016 |
ChappyChase:so u even see wetin I saw |
Re: Budget Padding: Dogara, Lasun, Others Must Resign – Jibrin by yaki84: 7:45am On Jul 22, 2016 |
when ù think its only saraki that is the blacksheep in apc, suddenly another one is mentioned. thank God pdp did diversify these politicians. |
Re: Budget Padding: Dogara, Lasun, Others Must Resign – Jibrin by JingoOAU(m): 7:49am On Jul 22, 2016 |
This Jubril of a guy is a confusionist If truly you wanted to resign as the chairman of appropriation, why don't you just remain silent and let sleeping dog lies He's even justifying that he was removed because he oppose immunity for principal officers of the Assembly....what a confusionist |
Re: Budget Padding: Dogara, Lasun, Others Must Resign – Jibrin by ChappyChase: 7:58am On Jul 22, 2016 |
BeeBeeOoh:Chai |
Re: Budget Padding: Dogara, Lasun, Others Must Resign – Jibrin by MisterGrace: 8:04am On Jul 22, 2016 |
Rogues and robbers everywhere. |
Re: Budget Padding: Dogara, Lasun, Others Must Resign – Jibrin by blazetitov: 8:08am On Jul 22, 2016 |
This 8th National assembly is the worst in the history of the country. Both houses are filled with shady characters. This corrupt Jibrin came to Channels Tv and started running his mouth insulting PMB and his budget team when they were accused of padding the budget. Now, the President has been vindicated. |
Re: Budget Padding: Dogara, Lasun, Others Must Resign – Jibrin by adeyak83(m): 8:27am On Jul 22, 2016 |
Infact all this legislooters deserves to be nailed on the cross. heartless H. being. |
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