Ahead House resumption, Jibrin resurfaces, rallying colleagues to push Dogara out

Ahead resumption of the House of Representatives from break, Abdulmumin Jibrin has said that the House can only be alive to its responsibility if it is able to deal decisively with allegations of corruption within the House.

According to him, except the House does this, and ensure that justice is served irrespective of who is involved, it would have lost the moral ground to deal with corruption outside the House which constitute an important part of its responsibility.

This is as the former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, accused Speaker Yakubu Dogara and the other four principal officers he alleged padded the budget, of seeking immunity for their selfish gains and to cover up fraud.

This was contained in a 17-page letter he wrote to his colleagues on September 14, after a long time of silence, reminding them that the House would make mockery of itself in the eyes of the public should it not demand that the speaker resign.

Part of the letter read, “Immunity for Principal Officers debate gave me a chance to prove to them that enough is enough. With what I know, I was convinced they wanted immunity for their selfish purpose not in the interest of the institution.

“Just imagine with all these fraud they perpetrated if they had immunity? At that point, I had made up my mind to leave. The whole environment was filthy. The smell of corruption was all over Speaker Dogara. It is a fact that he and his gang of few other members like Herman Hembe were very corrupt – front, back, left, right and centre. He isolated himself with a very few small-minded rogues in the house.

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“Anything short of asking the Speaker and others to resign, the House will become a laughing stock in the eyes of the public.

“Upon resumption, the house would have a golden opportunity to deal with this issue of incontrovertible corruption by speaker Dogara and others.

“The institution of the House shall stand beyond any individual! How we handle this matter is a litmus test for the House of Representatives.

“If we cannot deal decisively with allegations of corruption within the house and ensure that justice is served irrespective of who is involved, we would have lost the moral ground to deal with corruption outside the house which constitute an important part of our responsibility.”

By Ebere Ndukwu …

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