The man who's shocking Nigerians with revelations of corruption as
former chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin
Jibrin, has now raised fresh 20 questions for the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara
bordering on the unfolding budget padding scandal.
Jibrin said Dogara must respond to the questions individually. Full details below:
1. Why did you take the decision to fraudulently
shortchange the House by taken away 40 billion naira out of the 100
billion naira allocated for constituency projects and distributing same
to yourself and others without the approval of the House?
2. Why did you approach the former house appropriation
chairman with written personal requests and list of about 30 billion
naira to be inserted into the 2016 budget and his inability to get that
done caused a major rift between you all and him?
3. Why did you insert wasteful projects for your
various constituencies worth about 20billion naira despite the former
appropriation chairman professional advice against such?
4. Why did you ignore his complaint to you that just
about 10 standing committees of the House inserted over 2000 projects
worth 284 billion naira?
5. Why did you take away the appropriation committee
secretariat on two occasions where several insertions were made into the
budget which created avoidable tension during the budget process?
6. Why did you direct the former appropriation chair
which he rejected to create a strange line item in the service wide vote
to allow for a 20 billion naira insertion into the budget under the
name of NASS using a former PDP Senator and top politician?
7. Why are you trying to scam members with a fraudulent
arrangement to deduct monthly from money meant for members office
running cost to fund a so called mortgage arrangement?
8. Why did you abuse your office in a conflict of
interest directed an agency to grant loans and a construction company to
work on your Asokoro plot and arrange frequent private meetings with
heads of MDA’s?
9. Why did you allocate to yourselves the entire 20% inputs reserved for the House after the harmonization exercise?
10. How much did you collect for rent of house and
guests houses and how much did Hon Herma Hembe steal from the money that
caused the outburst of Lasun?
11. why are you trying to drag the entire House and
illegally using the official spokesman of the House into allegations
that were made on you and the 3 others ONLY?
12. Why did you consistently block the former chairman
appropriation from briefing Hon members and denied him his right to be
heard by his colleagues on this matter?
13. Why did you scuttle his effort and Sen Goje’s to
assist Mr. President after working so hard consulting ministers on the
budget out of envy and vindictiveness that Mr. President granted them
audience without you?
14. Why did you insist and ensured that the immunity
clause for the House principal officers is inserted into our agenda
despite huge resistance from members and the general public?
15. Why did you connive with 5 other members of the
House to use some elements of the Nigerian police and thugs in an
attempt to blackmail, kidnap, intimidate and silence him and his family?
16. Why are you desperately going round media houses offering money to silent the statements of the former appropriation chairman?
17. Why has it taken you this long to put together such
a lame storyt of why you “sacked” the former appropriation chairman
after admitting on national TV that he resigned?
18. Is it true that you left a huge mess and
allegations of money laundering against you as chairman House services
both in the 6th and 7th House?
19. Why have you refused to open up the financial
dealings and details of internal budget of the House to your colleagues,
Hon members?
20. Why do you have problems with reconvening the House immediately to allow for an independent investigation on the allegations?