Ousted chairman of the House of Representatives
Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has
made more shocking revelations on how 10 standing
committees secretly injected constituency projects worth
N284 billion into the 2016 budget without the knowledge of
the House.


The embattled lawmaker also claimed that the speaker,
Yakubu Dogara, allegedly convinced him to ship over N20
billion into the budget through Service Wide Vote.
In a statement issued in Abuja, Jibrin alleged that some
cabals had hijacked the Speaker to always do their bidding.
He, however, said the Majority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila,
and three other principal officers were not part of the secret
deal, adding that the budget inputs inserted on their names
were exclusively carried out by the speaker, his deputy,
Yussuff Lasun; Chief Whip, Ado Doguwa and the Minority
Leader, Leo Ogor.
His statement reads in full:

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“I am compelled again for the purpose of emphasis to state
categorically that my allegations are against the quartet of
speaker, Yakubu Dogara; deputy speaker, Yusuf Lasun;
House Whip, Alhassan Doguwa, and Minority Leader, Leo
Ogor, not the Honourable House as an institution nor other
members of the body of principal officers.
“I have to state this very clearly because this quartet has
resorted to desperate moves to drag the entire House of
Representatives into the case of gross abuse of office I have
leveled against them as individual presiding and principal
officers of the House. This is a mischievous move to set me
on collision with the entire house.

“They have also recruited four from the very few members
of their cabal to use some elements of the Nigeria police to
kidnap, harass, blackmail and intimidate me into silence.
Until yesterday, the police were laying siege to my house,
blocking the entrance and exit, shouting that they wanted
budget documents.

“They embarrassed my entire family with a nursing mother
and a seven-month-old baby that cried all night. The game
plan was to arrest me and dump me in police net while a
heavy media propaganda will be carried out to mislead the
world that I have been sacked and police have picked me up
as a culprit in 2016 budget.

“When ever I am released, an irreparable damage would
have been done to my person that will stick for life.
“As God Almighty will have it, I had traveled out of town
before they could execute their evil plan. God is always with
the innocent. The members in the tick of this plot are Jagaba
Adams, Jika both chairmen interior and police affairs
respectively, Muhammed Bago, Muhammed Zakari and the
last one I need not introduce him to Nigerians.


“During the budget period, when they discovered that I was
not the kind of person they could use to perpetrate their
illegality, Mr Speaker and the three other principal officers
took away the entire Appropriation Committee secretariat to
a secret location where all sort of insertions were made into
the budget.

“The blackmail has always been, Abdul people will laugh at
you if anything goes wrong between you and Dogara
because of the lead role you played and the many toes you
stepped on to get him elected. It’s been a painful
experience.

“Again the secretariat was taken away from me on Speaker
Dogara’s instruction for the second time to a location I didn’t
know and all sort of insertions into the budget were made
and returned to me for signature.
“I said over my dead body! It was a massive crisis behind the
scene until the early morning of the Friday that Mr President
assented the budget. It was Sen Danjuma Goje that brokered
a compromise that since the deputy speaker led the
harmonization committee, he should also sign such that the
harmonization committee will share responsibility with us.
“Senator Goje pleaded with me so hard all night and later
shouted heavily at me reminding me that he was not talking
to me as a senator but as a father.

I cried heavily all night.
“When the budget harmonization committee, headed by
Deputy Speaker Yusuf Lasun, gave out 80% concession
across board to the executive demands during the
harmonization negotiation, it was agreed that the remaining
20% should go to the entire NASS. The deputy speaker
excused himself that he wanted to go and consult with Mr
speaker.

“He came back after few hours and in an unprecedented
display of greed, presented to me a hand written note
distributing the remaining 20% to only principal officers.
70% of the 20% was reserved for Mr Speaker and himself,
while the remaining 30% of the 20% went to other principal
officers. I am sure he will recognize the hand writing when
he sees it.”

“Mr Speaker also directed me to create what I advised him
will be a controversial line item under service wide vote to
introduce about N20 billion projects using the name of
NASS. He directed me to see a highly placed PDP politician
which I did and collected the documents. I advised him
repeatedly against it but he kept pressuring me until I
bluntly told him I will not!

“When the Appropriation committee received all the budget
reports from standing committees, an analysis was
conducted. We discovered that about 10 of the 96 standing
committees of the House introduced about 2,000 (two
thousand) projects without the knowledge of their
committee members, amounting to about N284 billion.’’
“I was alarmed. But I was cautious because at our pre
budget meeting with the committee chairmen, I was clearly
warned not to touch their budgets. I reported the matter to
the speaker. He did nothing about it obviously because he
was working behind the scene with the committee chairmen.

That was the beginning of the whole budget problem from
the side of House and the whole exercise had to go through
several versions before it was passed.

“So, is it Abdul that introduced 2000 projects into budget
worth 284 billion? But I quietly bore the pain and abuses
from all over the country and continue to defend the
committee inputs as a show of loyalty to the institution I
represent which I so much love and still have many great
minds in there. Apart from Chairman Agriculture Hon
Mongunu who owned up and explained his inputs at the
only executive session I was allowed to attend, the other few
chairmen who loaded the budget kept quiet and watched me
bashed from every angle by angry Nigerians.’’


“Speaker Dogara has completely derailed, remains clueless,
keeps on with an unmatched ego and surely leading the
House to the biggest scandal it may ever experience.
‘’He has failed to live above the fog in public duty and
private thinking, a direct opposite of what my favorite
American Poet, Josiah Gilbet Holland, prayed Lord to grant
us leaders.


“All I am asking for is my right to be heard by my colleagues
which they denied me. I am calling on my colleagues to
plead with Speaker Yakubu Dogara, Deputy Lasun, Whip
Doguwa and Minority leader Ogor to stop obstructing justice
and allow me my right to be heard by the House.


‘’It is the House that will institute a special investigation on
this matter to allow me testify and provide evidence before
any other external action,” the statement added.

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