House of Reps members ask EFCC to investigate budget padding against Speaker Dogara
A group
of lawmakers at the House of Representatives who go by the name 'Transparency
Group’ have called on the EFCC to investigate claims of budget padding leveled
against Speaker Yakubu Dogara and three other principal officers of the House
by sacked chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin.
Addressing newsmen in Abuja yesterday July 27th, the leader of the group, Musa Soba, said Dogara and other principal officers mentioned in the budget padding scam as well as Abdulmumin Jibrin, former Chairman, House Committee on Appropriations, should be investigated by relevant external government agencies.
“We call for an external investigation into the
matter, to enable us know if our principal officers are guilty or not. For this
group, we say the budget was padded and as such, the budget being a document
that belongs to all Nigerians, it is no longer an internal affair” he said.
Sabo added that Dogara, the deputy speaker of the House, the majority whip and
the minority leader should confront the allegations leveled against them as
individuals and stop making it look like it's all the lawmakers that have been
accused of budget padding. “We urge the leadership of the House of
Representatives to stop presenting the 2016 budget padding allegations as the
problem of the entire House. Let those at the centre of the controversy answer
to all the allegations made against them individually and collectively in line
with legal practice and our criminal justice system,”.
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