A former chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has released more documents purporting to show widespread fraudulent manipulation of the 2016 budget by lawmakers.
Mr. Jibrin, who was removed from his post last week, has accused the speaker, Yakubu Dogara, and three other principal officers, of padding the budget with fake projects.
He has released documents showing how lawmakers applied for, or received approvals for the so-called constituency projects.
The latest documents, which Mr. Jibrin made available to PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday, are expected to further complicate issues for Mr. Dogara, his deputy, Yusuf Lasun, and other lawmakers caught in the unfolding budget padding scandal.
The documents purport to show how Mr. Lasun, who chaired the committee that approved the final House version of the budget, arbitrarily earmarked funds for “fictitious” projects to different lawmakers by embedding them in genuine projects proposed by the executive for ministries, departments and agencies.
In one of the documents, which Mr. Jibrin said was written by Mr. Lasun, the deputy speaker wrote that projects worth up to N594 million should be embedded in the Ministries of Agriculture, Labour and Trade and Investment as well as the National Boundary Commission for Chief Whip, Alhassan Doguwa and Deputy House Leader, Buba Jibrin.
Mr. Jibrin said the fraud totalled billions of naira.


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This obasanjo again? ? The same man that was busied competing and fighting his deputy because of the university atiku has and abandoned State matters for his demonic third term agenda. He ruled Nigeria the most and d cancer worms (legislative immoral wage increament he initiated) is now a major problem battling. He keeps comparing himself with Mandela and other greats but he forgot dt he misused the opportunity of putting Nigeria on d landmark of greatness while serving as both a military man and as democratic president. We knew how he harboured saraki in ilorin because of sarakis father.
Obasanjo may justify his anti corruption slogan by handling Charles Taylor to the UN BT we knew he did dt to justify his Odi (bayelsa) MASSACRE.
It's high time Obasanjo shud start formidable charity organisations so that he can have a peace of mind and not to connived as he did to build his PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY.

I didn't mean to derail the thread.
Above all, God shall save Nigeria

But the poster above me though.. Sounds like someone obasanjo seized his property or wronged in one way or another. As far as the padding issue is concerned. Things are getting serious o.. Gowon has said it all. Let those involved face the full wrath of the law (assuming its not lop-sided)

fistonati:
I didn't mean to derail the thread. Above all, God shall save Nigeria

You don't have to mean to, you almost did...!!!

I can't but just stare at the sky and wonder when we will have credible politicians at the helm of affairs. The only thing that knows no political party is the will to steal public fund by all politicians in Nigeria.

Accomplice exposing his cohorts.

...watching in 3D as the drama unfold.