"How Speaker Dogara & His 3-Man Cabal Deduct Lawmakers' Salaries" - Jibrin
– The embattled former House of Representatives committee
chairman on appropriation Abdulmumin Jubrin has accused speaker Yakubu
Dogara of scamming colleagues
– Jubrin said the speaker alongside his three-man cabal deduct money from the salaries of House of Representative members
Speaker Yakubu Dogara and other principal officers accused of massive corruption
The
embattled former chairman of the committee on appropriation of the
House of Representatives Abdulmumin Jubrin has made more revelations on
how speaker Yakubu Dogara deducts money from salaries of colleagues.
In
a statement made available to NAIJ.com, Jubrin said the speaker and his
three-man senior cabal have enshrined corruption in the lower house.
Jubrin
said: “Speaker Yakubu Dogara and his senior cabal namely deputy speaker
Yusuf Lasun, whip Doguwa and minority leader Ogor has promoted
corruption so badly in the House that if President Muhammadu Buhari with
his disdain for corruption and corrupt people have the slightest idea,
he will ban the quartet permanently from the Villa before they
eventually allow for proper and unbiased investigation by the House.”
Jubrin
in this fresh allegation against the speaker said Dogara in
collaboration with the deputy speaker diverted millions of naira in the
guise of paying for guest houses and office residence.
“The issue
became so messy that the deputy speaker openly accused Hon Herma Hembe
of short changing them of millions of naira in the deal to the shock of
many Hon Members.
“Speaker Yakubu Dogara frequently abuse his
office amounting to conflict of interest by soliciting for inappropriate
favours from agencies and Multinational companies. He forced an agency
to grant loans and a construction company blackmailed to do some work at
his Asokoro ‘plot’,” Jubrin said.
He also said Dogara “carefully” designed a scheme to shortchange all members of the lower house of their wages.
These monies, Jubrin said are deducted as mortgage arrangement to build houses for members of the House of Representatives.
“He has been applying every under hand tactics to ensure members agree to the deal.
“Speaker
Yakubu Dogara has consistently refused members access to the financial
dealings and internal budget of the House. He runs the financial
management of the House like a cult aided and abated by the Chairman
House services Hon Babanlle Ila. It is no longer news that all over the
House, honourable members are aware of the monumental fraud perpetrated
by Speaker Yakubu Dogara in this regard.
“We are even told that
this is a child’s play compared to the mess and allegations of money
laundering he left behind as Chairman house services in both the 6th and
7th Assembly. The EFCC should have something to start working with in
respect to his tenure as Chairman House services if they properly dust
their files,” the embattled lawmaker said.
He further called on
all members of the House of Representatives to prevail on the speaker
and his cabals for a thorough investigations on the allegations against
them in the interest of the country.
“This is just the tip of an iceberg, I will make further revelations in due course,” Jubrin said.
Since
the past week, there has been a crossfire between the speaker Dogara
and the former committee chairman on appropriation at the House of
Representatives.
The crisis has led to avalanche of revelations
on illegal activities of lawmakers in the padding the recently passed
appropriation act.
The crisis started after Dogara sacked Jubrin as the chairman of committee on appropriation.
Jubrin
had earlier accused the speaker and his cabals of adding N40 billion
for themselves in the budget, he also claimed to have prevented the trio
from perpetrating the fraudulent act.
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