Speaking during an exclusive interview with Channels TV on Sunday,
former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin
Jibrin, said he has since submitted enough documents to the anti-graft
agencies, adding that some of the documents would nail some of his
colleagues he had mentioned in the padding saga.
He disclosed further that he has called for the security of the
appropriation office and his office at the National Assembly where more
indicting documents are, and expressed readiness to help fight
corruption in the National Assembly.
The embattled lawmaker who is at war with Speaker Yakubu Dogara,
says the comment of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo about lawmakers being
corrupt is not “completely wrong”, adding that the corruption in the house is “institutional.”
“There is corruption in the house of representatives, there is
institutional corruption among other things. I can prove, and this is a
second layer of what my struggle is going to be about, ” Jibrin said.
“Obasanjo is not completely wrong, there is corruption, the
only problem is that we keep living in denial but I have been part of
that system and I know there is corruption in that system.
“There is also institutional corruption in that system, I have been in that institution for five years, we have seen a lot.”
He said though the constitution empowers the legislature to
appropriate funds for projects, the insertions in the 2016 budget were
“senseless”.
The lawmaker alleged that on several occasions, Yakubu Dogara, the speaker, requested him to insert projects into the budget. “It
is very important that the constitution gave us the power to
appropriate, insert, but the intention of the constitution is not to do
senseless insertions, ” he added.
“We did a statistics after collecting reports from the various
committees, shockingly I discovered that about 10 standing committees of
the house, posted about 2,000 projects totalling about N200 billion.”
Jibrin is accusing Dogara and 11 others of “padding” the 2016 budget through “unnecessary” projects.
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