The crisis rocking the House of Representatives over alleged budget padding seems to have taken a new dimension
Abdulmumin Jubrin has
on Thursday, July 28, 2018 accused Speaker Yakubu Dogara of harassing staff of
the appropriation secretariat.
Jubrin said Dogara
ordered the shutdown and movement of all computers from the appropriation
secretariat to the speakers' office.
"The secretariat
staff are being harassed to keep quite and suppress facts," Jibrin said.
"There has also
been an attempt to break into my office at the House. I know he wants to tamper
with documents critical to his and the 3 others future investigation and
prosecution but unfortunately for him we already have enough evidence in our
possession.
"I know he wants
to tamper with documents critical to his and the 3 others future investigation
and prosecution but unfortunately for him we already have enough evidence in
our possession.
Jibrin said he has
compiled a list of "corrupt members" which he will be submitting to
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
He stated that the
Transparency Group was constituted to "cleanse the House" of corruption
and corrupt members.
"Five members of
the Gombe caucus addressed the press today in a show of shame and succeeded in
only rehearsing the accusation of lies levelled against me by speaker Dogara.
Two of them are part of the list of corrupt members I will be submitting to the
EFCC.
"My response to
them is they should simply read my full reply released yesterday and join the
transparency group. An alliance of hundreds of members to cleanse the House of
corruption and corrupt members. They act honourably by calling on Speaker
Dogara to listen to the call of Nigerians to reconvene the house immediately so
that an independent investigation can commence," he said.
He called on Speaker
Dogara to reconvene the House immediately so as to allow for independent investigation
into the matter.
Meanwhile, Speaker
Dogara yesterday ordered Jibrin to retract all allegations against him or face
legal battles.
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