How Dogara blackmailed Reps to back down in budget padding scam –Jibrin

Suspended Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, says other members of the house were blackmailed to back down in the fight to expose the budget padding scam in the House.

He told Vanguard in an interview that “Members who come to me (said), ‘Look, can you go ahead with this issue without including running cost?’ If it is about interest of just taking down Dogara, Walahi, I will not even talk about running cost because I am smart enough to understand that, but I said that I am going all out even if I am alone.”

He also said, “There is one issue, and I have said it repeatedly, that unites the House and that is the issue of the running cost. What happened is simple. Many members are still angry about the budget crisis and other issues in the House. But the night before our resumption, that was a Monday, the Speaker arranged a caucus meeting. I attended the meeting.

“When the Speaker came in, the first thing he said sent everybody into shock. He said: ‘Look, the issue Jibrin is raising is not going to bring down Dogara, Lasun, Leo Ogor and Alhassan Dogowa; it is going to involve the whole House because if they start this investigation, it will get to the issue of running cost’.

“Since I mentioned the issue of running cost and called figures people have been collecting and everything, nobody has come out to refute it. Out of 359 members, has anyone come out to say Jibrin is lying? It is one hundred days today (penultimate Saturday), nobody has come up to say Jibrin is lying.”

Vanguard, November 6, 2016

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