Abdulmumin Jibrin
Suspended member of the House of Representative, Abdulmumin Jibrin
has accused his colleagues of orchestrating monumental corruption and
fruad in the House. He also accused members of raking in millions in
illegal allowances.
He has therefore urged them to stop milking Nigerians dry and has
forwarded about 50 Members of the House involved in running cost
allowances fraud to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
He wrote: "After about 10 weeks since I commenced exposing
corruption in the House of Representatives, Speaker Dogara and other
accused persons are yet to respond to dozens of allegations bordering on
budget fraud, abuse of office and public trust and corruption. This is
in addition to my revelation that there exist chronic, deep-rooted,
monumental and systemic corruption in the House.
"In the light of the foregoing, I wish to make the following statements and demands:
1. I am also demanding the Minister
of Finance, Accountant General of the Federation, Attorney General of
the Federation and Clerk of National Assembly in exercising my right as a
citizen of Nigeria to stop with immediate effect further payments of
running cost allowances to Members of the House of Representatives
because as an insider, I know that most of such money have been and are
diverted into private pockets. There is no law in our country that is
intended to protect corruption. So the continuous payment of such money
negates the spirit and genuine intention of establishing such laws in
the first place.
2. I am also calling on Nigerians,
companies, ministries, departments and agencies to shun invitations from
the House of Representatives until the House allows for a transparent
investigation of individual and systemic corruption allegations in
collaboration with ongoing external investigations by the police and
anti-graft agencies and commence a wide ranging reforms to restore the
battered image of the House and strengthen it to effectively discharge
its constitutional mandate. As a Nigerian, you have enough reason to
shun them. I assure you that they can do nothing.
Why did you think the House could not do anything to the former
Petroleum Minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke towards the end of the 7th
Assembly when she shunned and dared the House? Think? I will come to
that latter and narrate to you the story of how she met a senior member
of the body of Principal Officers of the 7th Assembly in the Aso drive
residence of a Lebanese business man, the deal that was struck and what
followed after in devastating consequences to the House and its image. A
complete shame!
3. As I promised and gave a 72-hours
ultimatum to the Principal Officers and one week to other members, I
have forwarded to the Anti-graft agencies the first batch of names of 50
members of the House that are involved in running cost allowances fraud
in their entire stay in the House. I have broken the list into batches
to make the work easier for the anti-graft agencies. I will be sending
the names in batches of 50 until the list is exhausted. The first batch
include Speaker Yakubu Dogara, Deputy Speaker Yusuf Lasun, Whip Alhassan
Doguwa, Minority Leader Leo Ogor, Hon Herma Hembe, Hon Jagaba Adams,
Hon Timothy Golu, Hon Yunusa Ahmad Abubakar, Hon Mukaila Olayiwola
Kazzim, Hon Lynda Chuba Ikpeazu, Hon Abdulrazak Namdas, Hon Osai Nicolas
Osai, among others.
I deliberately included the name of Hon Osai Chairman Ethics
Commiittee who wrote the report that suspended me from the House on the
grounds that I lied over my allegations that there exists monumental
systemic corruption in the House. After the anti graft agencies
investigate his running cost, the world will know whether I lied or told
the truth.
4. Nigerians must be very vigilant
because as an insider, I know how the House usually responds during
period like this. As you have started noticing, many investigative
hearings and ad hoc committees are springing up like mushrooms. The
investigative hearings are intended to blackmail the executive arm and
coax them not to act on the allegations and the ad hoc committees are
used to settle aggrieved members as it provides avenues to collect
bribes.
You will also notice irrational grandstanding over approval of
MTEF/FSP and the budget or correspondence from the President. All these
are legislative antics employed by the House to use the institution of
the House to shield corrupt members. This is exactly what Speaker Yakubu
Dogara and his corrupt cabal are executing presently in the House. The
EFCC and the Police has severally been victims of this kind of evil
tactics by the House in the past.
I am therefore urging Nigerians and the Executive Arm of
government to stand up against any blackmail from the Speaker Yakubu
Dogara-led House of Representatives as they are all antics to evade
investigation and prosecution. I have said repeatedly that the Senate
and executive arm of government can rely on doctrine of necessity to
bypass the House in the face of such allegations of monumental
corruption, which has been described as the biggest corruption scandal
in the history of the parliaments around the world.
Finally, i wish to call on the Federal Government to make me
face the harshest punishment prescribed by our laws if my allegations
are found to be false."
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