Budget Padding: Jibril Asked Dogara, Lasun To Quit

Sacked House Chair­man on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin yesterday claimed that the Speaker of the House of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, and three other principal officer of the House of singlehand­edly padding the 2016 Bud­get by N60 billion.

Jibril listed other lawmak­ers allegedly involved in the scam as the Deputy Speaker, Yusuff Lasun, Chief Whip Alhassan Doguwa and the Minority Leader Leo Ogor
The lawmaker therefore called for their resignation claiming that they lacked the morality to legislate for the country.

In a statement made available to pressmen in Abuja, Jibrin said the prin­cipal officers were not com­fortable with his indepen­dent disposition and refusal to cover up their unilateral decision to allocate to them­selves N40billion of the N100billion voted for the entire National.

“I still maintained that I will never support immu­nity. I strongly believe with every conviction that in cleaning up the budget sys­tem and considering what transpired during 2016 Budget which I have all the facts documented, Speaker Dogara, Deputy Speaker Lasun, Whip Doguwa and Minority Leader Leo Ogor should resign.


Source;  The Authority