How Dogara, Gbajabiamila, Others Received N10 Billion In Illegal Allowances — Jibrin
A previous Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Friday charged some senior officials in the House of living expansive by appropriating illicit recompenses to themselves to the detriment of Nigerian citizens.
The officials, who as of now serve in various limits as vital officers of the House, have professedly shared more than N10 billion amongst themselves as "office running cost," a subhead administrators have utilized for a considerable length of time to corner illicit remittances to themselves.
Nigerians have whined about these illicit recompenses for quite a long time however this is the first run through in Nigeria's history that a serving official would open up on the sharp practices.
Mr. Jibrin revealed the points of interest in an email to PREMIUM TIMES Friday night as a major aspect of the unfurling spending cushioning embarrassment he activated over a month back.
The 10 vital officers and the assets they have purportedly gotten so far as running costs incorporated the Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, who supposedly got the biggest offer of N1.5 billion.
Others on the rundown included Deputy Speaker, Yusuf Lasun, N800 million; Majority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila, N1.2 billion; his delegate, Buba Jibril, N1.2 billion; House Whip, Alhassan Doguwa, N1.2 billion; and his appointee, Pally Iriase, N700 million.
The rest included Minority Leader, Leo Ogor, N1.2 billion; Minority Whip, Yakubu Barde, N700 million; Deputy Minority Whip, Binta Bello, N700 million; and one Chuma he recorded as Minority Whip, N700 million.
Be that as it may, as opposed to what Mr. Jibrin expressed in his announcement, PREMIUM TIMES couldn't discover any official by the name Chuma with the assignment of Minority Whip.
So also, Mr. Jibrin recorded Mr. Barde as Deputy Minority Leader who has been in the House subsequent to 2007. Be that as it may, discoveries by this daily papers demonstrated that Mr. Barde was initially chosen in 2003 and he serves as Minority Whip. Our Efforts to get Mr. Jibrin to clear up these ambiguities were unsuccessful as calls to his known phone number was neither addressed nor returned.
Despite the fact that the most recent assertions basically focused on the commonplace names Mr. Jibrin had been pursuing political and media war against for quite a long time, it in any case, denoted the first run through the Kano official would transparently charge Mr. Gbajabiamila of being a recipient of fake continues.
The incorporation of Mr. Gbajabiamila did not however altogether come as a shock to eyewitnesses. He was among the vital officers who mutually marked an announcement a week ago to censure Mr. Jibrin and undermine him with approval when the House resumes from its break in September.
In his announcement on Friday, Mr. Jibrin said he recorded Mr. Gbajabiamila and other chief officers to demonstrate that he was not just pursuing a war to evacuate Mr. Dogara from office additionally to stop the flawed office running largesse, which he depicted as the sole bringing together drive for the 360-part House.
"The greater part of these individuals use it to obtain properties, autos and carry on with an existence of extravagance they never lived going to the House," Mr. Jibrin said.
Mr. Jibrin said he would proceed with the battle since "It is just when the council accompanies immaculateness that powerful oversight will be completed and investigative hearing to uncover extortion and debasement can be attempted."
Mr. Jibrin said he was pursuing the battle with the trust that it would achieve an enduring turnaround in the fake reason whereupon numerous yearning administrators promptly base their aspirations.
"The weighty impact of managing defilement in the House, particularly the recompenses issue, will inflict significant damage on even decisions. Competitors for the most part spend so much cash trusting that they can recover from the tremendous recompenses they will get when chosen into House.
"When you realize that there is no such cash in the House to be shared, I am certain no one will need to put in so much cash just to win a race to the House.
"The resultant impact will be that lone individuals who genuinely need to serve will compete for the workplace, and voters will be obliged to vote as indicated by the direct of their inner voice. This is only one preferred standpoint," Mr. Jibrin said.
Mr. Jibrin made the main disclosures about the fake control of 2016 spending plan on July 21, a day after he was backed off as administrator of the effective assignments board of trustees.
This week, he commended the primary month of what specialists portrayed starting one Africa's greatest parliamentary outrages and attributed his determination to his characteristic yearning for political backing.
"I have said it over and over that this activism has been running in my blood, and fortunately the aftermath of the 2016 spending plan turned into the trigger and furnished me with the right road."
Mr. Jibrin, in this way, entreated Nigerians to stay relentless and watchful as he leads the cause to free it from those he depicted as degenerate components.
"As we proceed with this battle to wipe out debasement and reestablish rational soundness in the House of Representatives, I will keep on urging Nigerians to stay cautious as these degenerate components can go to any length to change the portrayal and sidestep equity," Mr. Jibrin said.
Mr. Dogara's representative, Turaki Hassan, did not answer PREMIUM TIMES' calls looking for remarks for this story.
Abdulrazak Namdas, the representative for the House, could likewise not be gone after remarks as his recorded phone line was exchanged off the few times our columnist called.
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