DOGARA,
GBAJABIAMILA, OTHERS SILENT ON FRESH N10BN ALLEGATION
Sunday,
August 28, 2016
Nine out of the 10 principal officers of the
House of Representatives kept sealed lips on Saturday over the latest
N10billion allegations levelled against them by a former Chairman, Committee on
Appropriation, Mr. Abdulmumin Jibrin.
The officers are the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara;
Deputy Speaker, Yussuff Lasun; House Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila;
Deputy Leader, Buba Jibril; Deputy Whip, Pally Iriase; Minority Leader, Leo
Ogor; Deputy Minority Leader, Chukwuka Onyeama; Minority Whip, Yakubu Barde;
and Deputy Minority Whip, Binta Bello-Maigeri.
Jibrin, whom the 10 principal officers said was
sacked for “abusing” the 2016 budget, had earlier on July 21, accused Dogara,
Lasun, the Chief Whip, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, and Ogor of padding the budget by
over N40bn.
Jibrin, an All Progressives Congress lawmaker from Kano State, again on Friday,
alleged that the officers had “embezzled” over N10bn allocated as ‘running
costs’ between 2003 and this year.
But, only
Ado-Doguwa responded to enquiries by newsmen
as of 4.30pm on
Saturday.
Ado-Doguwa, who was the
only one that responded, urged Nigerians to disregard Jibrin’s allegations as
they came from a “man, who no longer has credibility.”
Ado-Doguwa claimed that
Jibrin was unable to get over the fact that he had been sacked as a committee
chairman.
He stated, “There is nothing new to respond to. As far as I am concerned, all that Jibrin had said and whatever he may have to say in the future, are not true. They are baseless and false claims from a man, who up till now, has not come out of the shock of his removal as Chairman of the Committee on Appropriation. Read more
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