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Jibrin weeps for Nigeria for celebrating corruption

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DRAMA: Jibrin drops suit against Dogara, now seeks N1bn for suspension
Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said that he is crying for Nigeria because it has continued to celebrate corrupt people.
The former chairman of the House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee, added that so long as Nigeria continues to respect corrupt people, things will continue to grow from bad to worse in the country.
Jibril stated this in a statement on Thursday, where he explained how Appropriation Committee which he was headed, was used for fraud in padding of the 2016 budget.
He said it was a diversionary plan by Yakubu Dogara, the Speaker, to say that the budget is “law and therefore no offence can be committed in that regard”.
Referring to a statement credited to Dogara, where he said at a function that “the budget being a law therefore means it is only the parliament that can make it because it is a law.
But Jibrin replying Dogara said, “Today, they went a disgraceful step further to threaten that the budget is already a law and therefore no offence can be committed in that regard.
“For instance let’s say an item in a budget proposed by the executive under power for the purchase of a transformer costs N2 million and same amount was budgeted. If the Chairman House Committee on power, because he has the powers to appropriate, decides to add N3 million to jack up the allocation to N5 million, when it is a public knowledge that the transformer cannot cost more than N2m naira, what do you call that? That essentially means appropriation fraud.
“Transparency and Integrity Group, Speaker Dogara and his gang of thieves should submit themselves to the anti-corruption agencies and answer thousands of questions waiting for them. I am pretty sure not even the two governors and three former house members backing them can help them evade the anti-corruption agencies.”
Noting that he had forwarded to the anti-corruption agencies documents showing how Speaker Dogara and others allegedly allocated the N40 billion they stole from N100 billion for constituency projects, Jibrin said, “I cry for Nigeria. So long as we continue to respect corrupt people, so shall our country continue to relapse.”
Jibrin’s allegation of criminal insertions into the 2015 budget by Speaker Dogara and three other principal officers of the Lower Chamber, seem not to be garnering attention by the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the party has clearly stated that there will be no sanction for those involved in the budget allegation saga.
By Ebere Ndukwu …
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