Bukola Saraki, President of the Senate, has challenged the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to provide proof that the National Assembly had padded the national budget for four years. Saraki, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, said he considers the allegation careless, irresponsible […]
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A federal high court sitting in Abuja has declared as illegal the suspension of Abdulmumin Jibrin, lawmaker representing Bebeji/Kiru constituency in Kano state, at the federal house of representatives. Recall that in 2017, the house suspended Jibrin for 180 legislative days after he alleged the padding of 2016 budget. He had accused Yakubu Dogara, speaker […]
Continue ReadingThe Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Federal Capital Territory (FCT), says the days of Abdulmumin Jibrin, former chairman of the committee on approbations, are numbered. The lower chamber of the national assembly suspended Jibrin after he leveled an allegation of corruption against the leadership of the 8th assembly. He subsequently left the […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that the alterations that marked the 2016 budget, in which series of rogue projects and figures were injected into the financial document won’t happen to next year’s budget.The president made this vow while receiving members of the Governance Support Group (GSG), led by Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, at State House, Abuja […]
Continue ReadingHerman Hembe, a member of the house of representatives from Benue state, has accused Abdulmumin Jibrin of running away from prosecution. Jibrin, who was suspended from the house over some allegations leveled against the leadership of the 8th assembly, is currently in London where he received an award. The suspended lawmaker has vowed not return […]
Continue ReadingThe House of Representatives has handed down a 180 legislative days suspension to former chairman of the appropriations committee, Abdulmumin Jibrin, a lawmaker from Kano, over an alleged breach of legislators’ privileges in the budget padding scandal.The House seats three days in a week and this consequently means that Mr. Jibrin’s suspension would last more than […]
Continue ReadingAbdulmumin Jibrin, a member of the House of Representatives and former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, has said that he will not appear before the House Committee on Ethics and Privileges except if the hearing will be public. This is contained in a statement he issued on Wednesday after the house resolved to […]
Continue ReadingBy Abdulmumin Jibrin Today marks one month since we commenced the struggle to expose budget fraud and wipe out corruption in the House of Representatives. It has been a month of startling revelations; thirty days of threats and intimidations; and 720 hours of fervent struggle to exterminate corruption in the lower legislative chamber. Although it […]
Continue ReadingSenator Iyiola Omisore, a former deputy governor of Osun State, has faulted Abdulmumin Jibrin for describing him as the godfather to Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, saying Jibrin’s attempt to implicate him in the budget padding scandal is unfortunate. Jibrin, former chairman, Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives, had alleged […]
Continue ReadingThe speaker of the house of representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has denied presenting himself as being above the law, alleging that the media misconstrued his statement regarding the crisis rocking the house. In a statement issued on his behalf by Turaki Hassan, his spokesman, Dogara said he was quoted out of context when he addressed journalists […]
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