Stop paying running cost money to House of Reps members- Abdulmumin Jibrin advises Finance Minister
Suspended lawmaker,
Abdulmumin Jibrin, has advised the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, to stop
the payment of running cost allowances to members of House of Reps. Jibrin in
recent times has alleged that the lawmakers collect as much as N10 million every
month as running cost allowance which they never get to use and divert into
their personal accounts. Read his new statement below...
After about 10 weeks since I commenced
exposing corruption in the House of Representatives, Speaker Dogara and other accused
persons are yet to respond to dozens of allegations bordering on budget fraud,
abuse of office and public trust and corruption. This is in addition to my
revelation that there exist chronic, deep-rooted, monumental and systemic
corruption in the House.
In the light of the foregoing, I wish to make
the following statements and demands:
1-I am also demanding the Minister of Finance,
Accountant General of the Federation, Attorney General of the Federation and
Clerk of National Assembly in exercising my right as a citizen of Nigeria to
stop with immediate effect further payments of running cost allowances to
Members of the House of Representatives because as an insider, I know that most
of such money have been and are diverted into private pockets. There is no law
in our country that is intended to protect corruption. So the continuous payment
of such money negates the spirit and genuine intention of establishing such
laws in the first place.
2- I am also calling on Nigerians, companies,
ministries, departments and agencies to shun invitations from the House of
Representatives until the House allows for a transparent investigation of
individual and systemic corruption allegations in collaboration with ongoing
external investigations by the police and anti-graft agencies and commence a
wide ranging reforms to restore the battered image of the House and strengthen
it to effectively discharge its constitutional mandate. As a Nigerian, you have
enough reason to shun them. I assure you that they can do nothing.
Why did you think the House could not do
anything to the former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke towards the
end of the 7th Assembly when she shunned and dared the House? Think? I will
come to that latter and narrate to you the story of how she met a senior member
of the body of Principal Officers of the 7th Assembly in the Aso drive
residence of a Lebanese business man, the deal that was struck and what
followed after in devastating consequences to the House and its image. A
complete shame!
3- As I promised and gave a 72-hours ultimatum
to the Principal Officers and one week to other members, I have forwarded to
the Anti-graft agencies the first batch of names of 50 members of the House
that are involved in running cost allowances fraud in their entire stay in the
House. I have broken the list into batches to make the work easier for the
anti-graft agencies. I will be sending the names in batches of 50 until the
list is exhausted. The first batch include Speaker Yakubu Dogara, Deputy
Speaker Yusuf Lasun, Whip Alhassan Doguwa, Minority Leader Leo Ogor, Hon Herma
Hembe, Hon Jagaba Adams, Hon Timothy Golu, Hon Yunusa Ahmad Abubakar, Hon
Mukaila Olayiwola Kazzim, Hon Lynda Chuba Ikpeazu, Hon Abdulrazak Namdas, Hon
Osai Nicolas Osai, among others.
I deliberately included the name of Hon Osai
Chairman Ethics Commiittee who wrote the report that suspended me from the
House on the grounds that I lied over my allegations that there exists
monumental systemic corruption in the House. After the anti graft agencies
investigate his running cost, the world will know whether I lied or told the
truth.
4-Nigerians must be very vigilant because as
an insider, I know how the House usually responds during period like this. As
you have started noticing, many investigative hearings and ad hoc committees
are springing up like mushrooms. The investigative hearings are intended to
blackmail the executive arm and coax them not to act on the allegations and the
ad hoc committees are used to settle aggrieved members as it provides avenues
to collect bribes. You will also notice irrational grandstanding over approval
of MTEF/FSP and the budget or correspondence from the President. All these are
legislative antics employed by the House to use the institution of the House to
shield corrupt members. This is exactly what Speaker Yakubu Dogara and his
corrupt cabal are executing presently in the House. The EFCC and the Police has
severally been victims of this kind of evil tactics by the House in the past.
I am therefore urging Nigerians and the
Executive Arm of government to stand up against any blackmail from the Speaker Yakubu
Dogara-led House of Representatives as they are all antics to evade
investigation and prosecution. I have said repeatedly that the Senate and
executive arm of government can rely on doctrine of necessity to bypass the
House in the face of such allegations of monumental corruption, which has been
described as the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the parliaments
around the world.
Finally, i wish to call on the Federal
Government to make me face the harshest punishment prescribed by our laws if my
allegations are found to be false.
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