The appropriation committee of the house of representatives has denied the allegation that its staff were threatened on the orders of Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house.In a letter made available to journalists on Saturday, Abel Ochigbo, clerk of the committee, said nothing of such happened."Our attention has been drawn to the report alleging shutdown, seizure and packaging/relocation of the [...]
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Jibrin Abdulmumin, former chairman of the house of representatives committee, says he is confident that Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house, will be arrested.Jibrin has been engaged in a war of words with the speaker whom he had accused alongside some principal officers of an attempt to illegally add N40 billion to the 2016 budget.Dogara and other officials Jibrin mentioned have denied [...]
The appropriations committee of the federal house of representatives has said that the actions of Jibrin Abdulmumin, former chairman, do not reflect the position of the committee.Addressing a press conference on Friday, Chris Azubogu, deputy chairman of the committee, said the sacked chairman of the committee single-handedly worked on the budget at an undisclosed location for three weeks.According to him, he had [...]
Timi Frank, the deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on John Oyegun, the national chairman to resign if he could not do his job of settling disputes between party members at crisis periods.There has been allegations and counter-allegations between the Jibrin Abdulmumin, the sacked chairman of appropriation committee in the house of representatives and [...]
Jibrin Abdulmumin, former chairman of the federal house of representatives committee on appropriations, has accused Yakubu Dogara, the speaker, of attempting to break into his office to tamper with documents critical to the allegations of budget padding against him.Last week, Jibrin had alleged that Dogara, Yusuf Lasun, deputy speaker, Alhassan Doguwa, whip and Leo Ogor, the minority leader of an attempt [...]
Abdulmumin Jibrin, a member of the federal house of representatives, has vowed to "exposing" Yakubu Dogara, the speaker, until he is removed.Jibrin started slamming allegations of corruption against Dogara and other members of the house leadership when he was removed as the chairman of the appropriations committee last week.On Wednesday, Dogara had given him seven days to apologise for the allegations [...]
Abdulmumin Jibrin, former house representatives chairman on appropriations, has told Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the federal house of representatives, that he "will not and will never apologize to a shameless fraud in high office who has glaringly abused public trust".In a statement he released by himself on Wednesday, Jibrin said he had approached the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the [...]
Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the federal house of representatives, has issued a seven-day ultimatum within which Abdulmumin Jibrin, former chairman of the appropriation committee, must apologise and retract all his allegations against him or face legal action.In a statement on Wednesday, Turaki Hassan, spokesman to Dogara, said the demand for retraction of allegations and apology was contained in a letter addressed to Jibrin by [...]
The federal house of representatives has accused Abdulmumin Jibrin, former chairman of the appropriation committee, of corruption — same offence Jibrin accused Speaker Yakubu Dogara and three other principal officers of the chambers of.Speaking at a press conference in Abuja, Abdulrazak Namadas, spokesman of the house, deaid Jibrin was himself involved in smuggling fake projects into the budget.Namdas also described him as [...]
Timi Frank, deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says Abdulmumin Jibrin should have petitioned the Economic an Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) if he had proof of his allegations against principal officers of the federal house of representatives rather than go the media and bring disdain to the lower [...]
Abdulrazak Namdas, spokesman of the federal house of representatives, says Abdulmumin Jibrin, former chairman of the appropriation committee, made a series of allegations against principal officers of the house because he was relieved of his duty.Jibrin was replaced with Mustapha Dawaki Bala by Yakubu Dogara, the speaker, on Wednesday. However, on Thursday, he accused some principal officers of the house, including Dogara, of a "unilateral decision [...]
Abdulmumin Jibrin, former chairman of the federal house of representatives committee on appropriation, says he will discuss details of the controversies around the 2016 budget, in future.At the close of plenary on Wednesday, Speaker Yakubu Dogara announced that Jibrin had been replaced with Mustapha Dawaki Bala as chairman of the committee.But speaking to journalists later, Jibrin stated that he loved his job [...]
Abdulmumin Jibrin, chairman of the federal house of representatives committee on appropriation, says Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transport, does not understand his budget.Speaking in an interview with Channels Television, Jibrin said the executive arm of government does not even have a budget.“Let me say this very straight, I do not believe that the executive arm of government really understands the document [...]
The controversy surrounding the 2016 budget may finally be coming to an end as both arms of the national assembly fix March 17 for its passage.The budget, which has been in the centre of many controversies, is said to have been deliberated and defended by various ministries, agencies and departments.Speaking in Abuja on Thursday, Abdulmumin Jibrin, chairman of the house [...]
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