“I write you this letter for four very important reasons: To apologise and seek forgiveness of the party for the role I played in the election of Speaker Yakubu Dogara; to give a background of the current crisis as a result of the allegations I raised against Speaker and the 12 other corrupt members; to furnish you with the details of the allegations against Mr Speaker and the 12 others and; to provide urgent recommendation on the way forward before this crisis cause irreparable damage of our great party. Mr Chairman, you will recall the crisis during and after the election of Speaker Yakubu Dogara, Deputy Speaker Yusuf Lasun and Whip Alhassan Doguwa. You will also recall the leading role I played in bringing these 3 Principal Officers on board. I recollect with deep regret and pains and can still hear the echo of your voice in the make or mar meeting at the ICC shouting ‘sit down Jibrin, sit down Jibrin, Jibrin sit down’, ‘you dare not walk out of this hall Jibrin’! Sen Lawali Shuaibu watched helplessly with the box of ballot meant for the mock elections as I forced myself up, stood my grounds, made my points, held the hands of Yakubu Dagara, a green snake under green grass, and pulled him out of the hall. You saw what I didn’t see. A validation of the saying that ‘what an old man can see, a young man cannot even if he climbs a tree’ worst, an old man of over seven decades. The rest is history. The role I played to the best of my conscience at then, sir, was patriotic. I analysed the two candidates and felt Speaker Dogara has a better temperament to make a good Speaker. It was a narrow line of thinking, an error of judgment. It took only few weeks after the election for me to realize the corrupt and dangerous man inside the skin of Speaker Dogara.”
According to him, it would dangerous for the party to keep Dogara on the seat as Speaker.
“In
a nutshell, it will be dangerous and potentially disastrous for the
party to keep speaker Yakubu Dogara on that seat” he said.
Read full text of his letter
READ MY LETTER TO CHAIRMAN OF OUR DEAR PARTY APC
August 12, 2016
Chief John Odigie Oyegun
The National Chairman
All Peoples Congress APC
National Secretariat
Wuse II
Abuja
Chief John Odigie Oyegun
The National Chairman
All Peoples Congress APC
National Secretariat
Wuse II
Abuja
Dear Sir
DETAILS
OF THE ALLEGATIONS I MADE AGAINST SPEAKER YAKUBU DOGARA, DEPUTY SPEAKER
YUSUF LASUN, HOUSE WHIP ALHASSAN DOGUWA AND MINORITY LEADER OF THE PDP
LEO OGOR AND 9 OTHER STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN: THIS IS A LITMUS TEST
AND DEFINING MOMENT FOR THE ANTI-CORRUPTION STAND OF THE APC AS THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING
I
write to the Leadership of our Party, the various Organs and chapters
of the Party, elected and appointed officials of our party, supporters,
well wishers and members of our party in Nigeria, Africa and the world
at large through your good office, the Chairman of our great party.
I write you this letter for four very important reasons;
1- To apologise and seek forgiveness of the party for the role I played in the election of the extremely corrupt Speaker Dogara
2-To give a background of the current crisis as a result of the allegations I raised against Speaker Dogara and the 12 other
corrupt members
corrupt members
3-To furnish you with the details of the allegations against Mr Speaker and the 12 others and
4-To provide urgent recommendation on the way forward before this crisis cause irreparable damage to our great party
4-To provide urgent recommendation on the way forward before this crisis cause irreparable damage to our great party
APOLOGY TO THE APC
Mr
Chairman, you will recall the crisis during and after the election of
Speaker Yakubu Dogara, Deputy Speaker Yusuf Lasun and Whip Alhassan
Doguwa. You will also recall the leading role I played in bringing these
3 Principal Officers on board. I recollect with deep regret and pains
and can still hear the eco of your voice in the make or mar meeting at
the ICC shouting "sit down Jibrin, sit down Jibrin, Jibrin sit down" "
you dare not walk out of this hall Jibrin"! Sen Lawali Shuaibu watched
helplessly with the box of ballot meant for the mock elections as I
forced myself up, stood my grounds, made my points, held the hands of
Yakubu Dagara, a green snake under green grass, and pulled him out of
the hall. You saw what I didn't see. A validation of the saying that "
what an old man can see, a young man cannot even if he climbs a tree"
worst, an old man of over 7 decades. The rest is history.
The
role I played to the best of my conscience at then sir was patriotic. I
analysed the 2 candidates and felt Speaker Dogara has a better
temperament to make a good Speaker. It was a narrow line of thinking, an
error of judgement. It took only few weeks after the election for me to
realize the corrupt and dangerous man inside the skin of Speaker
Dogara. That was when I started getting reports of his corrupt practices
for many years in the House undetected. I fell apart will Speaker
Dogara instantly. Contrary to public believe, we have never been close
since few weeks after he emerged Speaker.
We
practically disagreed on almost everything. From the appointment of
Committee Chairmen, to splitting of Committees, to non disclosure of the
finances of the house, to his greed of unifying everything under his
control, commercializations of
bills, divisive approach across ethnic and religious line, arrogance
and power drunk, corruption and fraud during the budget period among
many others. But who will I tell or run to having played such a leading
role in bringing him on board. It was a painful,frustrating
and depressing period for me. He operates alone, keep weird
relationships with top politicians. His God father is Sen Iyola Omisore.
Speaker Dogara is of the habit of taking standing Committee Chairmen to
swear Oath of allegiance before Omisore. During the build up to the
appointment of committee Chairmen, I had a terrible disagreement with
him. I stayed far away from him. I was in london when he insisted he
wants to see me. He came to my hotel room and we talked for hours. I
gave him a lot of advice but I never knew it was getting in from one
ears and out from the other. He was more interested in telling me about
the forces who didn't want me to be appointed Chairman appropriation as
if I cared. He mentioned Former Speaker and present Governor of Sokoto
state Aminu Waziri Tambuwal as one. That is how narrow minded Dogara can
be.
I
have always maintained to him that being Chairman appropriation is not
in any way a favour to me. I dashed him money, he thanked me and left.
The following day, he pleaded to me to join him at a house in london. I
went and I saw him seated very comfortably with Sen Omisore. It was
there he said he was going to appoint me Chairman appropriation and I
should be reporting to Omisore! I was completely shocked. A nice lunch
was served, we eat and We left. Atleast there are CCTV in london. I
confided in a highly placed person who I wouldn't want to mention his
name. He advised me to remain calm and consentrate on my job. My refusal
to comply with such questionable instructions largely accounted for the
anger of Mr Speaker towards me. It was much later that I realized that
Sen Omisore had adopted Speaker Dogara as a god son since their days as
Chairman appropriation and house services in the 6th Assembly
respectively. Studying Speaker Dogara in the last one year and many
things I know that it may not be proper to mention here, he does not
wish the APC well, he is a cheap pretender, he is not loyal to the party
and he will provide a solid platform for a massive attack against our
party in the nearer future. I know what Iam talking about.
In
a nutshell, it will be dangerous and potentially disastrous for the
party to keep Speaker Yakubu Dogara on that seat. I wish to state that I
deeply regret the role I played in the emergence of Yakubu Dogara as
Speaker. I seek the understanding and forgiveness from you, our leaders
and every member of the APC family that was hurt by my action. Thank God
Almighty, Iam young and energetic. I will be 40 on September 9th.
I promise that moving forward, I will dedicate and completely commit my
self to achieving the goals set out by the party. This case should
serve as a lesson for everyone in the future.
BACKGROUND OF THE CURRENT CRISIS
Mr
Chairman sir, let me reemphasis that I did nothing wrong. I committed
no offense. I have never abused my office or corruptly enrich myself in
the 5years I have spent in the House. No one has ever accused me of
corruption in the House until lately, after raising allegations against
Speaker Dogara, corruption started fighting back. They starting bringing
up baseless allegations. Iam pretty sure the anti corruption agencies
will do their job and all our party men and women will know the truth at
the end of the day. My offense has been my refusal to be used as
conduit to to facilitate free flow of corruption in the House of
Representatives. I came under
severe pressure during the budget period to break procedures and commit
fraudulent actions. When they could not use me, the Speaker connived
with few committee chairmen and they opened a bazaar of corrupt
insertions into the budget. I complained to the Speaker but he took no
action only for me to discover later that he, his deputy, Whip and
Minority Leader were indeed the ring Leaders of that corrupt cabal in
the House. All they wanted was to do away with me, considered the
obstacle. The Speaker and the 3 others were in the tick of the plot. The
only time they call on me is when they need someone on television. I
was blackmailed that it is my job as Appropriation committee Chairman to
defend everything about the budget whether I agree with it or not.
I
did my work as appropriation committee chairman diligently. I followed
all the laws and procedures. I have all the documents and video
recordings of proceedings intact. Problem started when the President
returned the budget. I was invited to a meeting of body of Principal
officers. The speaker shamelessly denied he knew anything about the
insertions. He knew very well that he and the 3 other Principal Officers
connived with some Committee Chairmen to commit the fraud. By then, I
could not take the pressure anymore from Nigerians who thought I wrote
the budget alone while the Speaker, the 3 other Principal Officers and
the Committee chairmen involved wickedly kept quite. I told the meeting
clearly that they were the culprit. The meeting became very tensed to a
point where Lasun and Ogar wanted to exchange blows with me. I
maintained my calm and to the God Almighty that I worship, I apologized
to them. I was overwhelmed but I knew I cannot continue to cover up
anything again. It was at that meeting that they requested me not to
tell my colleagues at the executive session that the four of them stole
40billion out of the 100 billion meant for constituency projects. I told
them clearly I cannot.
We
then moved into the executive session. Members were very angry with me.
They have every reason to be because they do not have full information
of what transpired. I was called upon to adress the session. I prayed
quietly and stepped forward. They asked me about cuts in their budgets,
the Speaker knew the answer and kept quite, they asked about the
insertions, all the culprits were seated there but the Speaker kept
quite, they asked about their missing 40billion, the Speaker kept quite.
At that point, I told them that the Speaker and the 3 other Principal
Officers took the money and shared it to themselves and few others. The
session went balistic! I was scared to say more than that. After that
meeting, the Speaker and the 3 others became even more angry with me.
They were determined to embarrass and disgrace me using every means
possible. They just wanted me out of out of the job. They quickly in an
arrangement strange to parliamentary practice set up a harmonization
committee and appointed one of them the Deputy Speaker, Lasun as
Chairman all to send a message to members and the public that there is
no more confidence in me and Iam the culprit and provide a more
comfortable avenue to continue there fraud and poisonous insertion in
the budget. Deputy Speaker Lasun did a great job. He indeed
FANTASTICALLY loaded the budget with poisonous insertions for the
QUARTET aided and abetted by the Speaker.
In
protest that my secretariat was taken away from me on two occasions for
such insertions to be made on the instruction of Speaker Dogara, I
refused to sign the harmonized version until a compromise was brokered
by Sen Danjuma Goje that the Deputy Speaker who headed the harmonization
should also sign. After the budget was signed into law, the QUARTET
resumed their hunting for Hon Jibrin. They went every where In search of
something to nail me, they could not find any. They were frustrated but
remained desperate. At that point, I was already fed up but I was sure I
will stand up to them and expose them. The immunity debate gave me a
chance to prove to them that enough is enough. At that point, I had made
up my mind to leave. The whole environment was filthy. The smell of
corruption was all over Speaker Dogara. Everybody knows he and his gang
of few other members like Hon Herma Hembe were very corrupt front, back,
left, right and center. He isolated himself with a very few
small-minded rogues in the House. I informed the Speaker on three
occasions that I want to leave but he always replied me that he would
call me later so we could discuss. On Wednesday the 20th July I went up
to him and told him I will announce my resignation if he doesn't. He
still said to me let's meet at 10pm in the night. They just wanted to ensure I was disgraced out of office.
He
went on at the end of the session and announced that I had resigned but
they had taken a decision already to sack me on allegation of offenses
regarding the 2016 budget. A budget fiasco they and I know too well they
are the culprits. I had to respond for so many reasons. It provided me
an ample opportunity to open up on the mess they perpetrated in the
budget and corruption in the House in order to force reforms that will
restore the battered image of the House. Mr Chairman, believe me or not,
this is what I have always wished and prayed for an opportunity to do.
Secondly, it is important to say my side of the story so that Nigerians
will know I committed no offense. I was worried about my image. I have a
family and children. The best I can bequeath to them is a good name. I
therefore set out and released dozens of allegations against the Speaker
and 12 others. Until date they have not responded to any of the
allegations. In contrast, I have responded to all the allegations they
raised against me which largely bothered on immaturity, betrayal and so
on. My responses are in the public glare.
I
proceeded to submit petitions based on the allegations to the EFCC,
ICPC, DSS and the NPF for investigation and prosecution. While I have
attended several meetings with these agencies to give insight on the
allegations, provide documents and codes on how to crack these kind of
corrupt cases and others in the House, they on the other hand continue
to evade the anti-corruptionagencies.
They have used the period to intensify lobby in high places for a safe
landing, hurriedly clean up the mess on their desks, share money to some
members for signature of confidence vote, offer incentives of
committees to the Transparency and Integrity groups which the groups
rejected, embarked on an expensive media campaign to launder the image
of the Speaker and attack my person and worst of all Speaker Dogara
sponsored black mail to drag the executive, senate and highly placed
individuals into this matter with cheap lies that the padding
allegations, if dealt with decisively will bring down the whole country.
What a blackmail on the entire country!
When
Mr Speaker and his cohorts realized that I was out for a real show,
having submitted my petition and documents to the anti graft agencies
which clearly shows my innocence and they as the culprits in the whole
budget issues, he made a disgraceful about-turn. He announced to the
whole world that padding is not an offense. Few days later, he boasted
that the anti graft agencies have no power to investigate or prosecute
him, that is why he has shunned all their invitations. There was uproar
all over the country against Speaker Dogara. Yet, in another shameful
and disgraceful about turn, he said in a statement yesterday that he was
misunderstood, Indeed! And added that no money was lost during the
appropriation exercise. But at the same time all of these are offenses
if the accused is Hon Jibrin. What a shame!
The same Speaker who claimed he "sacked" me for budget offenses.
The same Speaker who claimed he "sacked" me for budget offenses.
Mr
Chairman, all the statements of Mr Speaker during the last few days
have clearly proven my innocence. I have decided to find appropriate
constitutional and legal means to get the Speaker and his co travelers
to account for the damage to my name and person and the trouble he has
caused me and my family. Yes, he has the powers to remove a committee
chairman but it must be done with a huge sense of justice, fairness and
responsibility. The Speaker
also claimed at the Civil Society dialogue that we did lot a lot of work
in the budget. Why did it take him this long to come out and admit?
Simple, it was myself and Goje that sorted out all of that. He knew
nothing about the efforts we made in that regard but shamelessly he
wants to take credit for it. Mr Chairman, I have taken my time to
explain this so that you will have a proper context to this crisis. Let
me reiterate that padding is an offense. Padding can be tried under
Nigerian laws. The Speaker can be investigated and prosecuted contrary
to the claim of Mr Speaker.
I have pledged maximum cooperation to the anti-corruptionagencies
and I will provide them with guide and assistance on how to unravel all
these crimes and theft of our common wealth. For instance, let's say an
item in a budget proposed by the executive under Power for the purchase
of a transformer cost N2million and same amount was budgeted. If the
Chairman House Committee on power because he has the "powers" to
appropriate decides to add N3million to jack up the allocation to
N5million when it is a public knowledge that the transformer cannot cost
more than 2million naira, what do you call that? That essentially means
APPROPRIATION FRAUD! And such a chairman is a FRAUDSTER, a common
criminal. On the other hand, let's say he decides to irrationally reduce
the amount to 500,000 thousand naira knowing full well that the said
amount cannot buy the transformer, what do you call that? APPROPRIATION
SABOTAGE and such a chairman is a SABOTEUR. And let's say he just
decided to take the entire N2million away, the question is where has he
taken it to? Let's follow up, we might discover something shocking. I
have no apology for saying this! Little by little, I will be providing
more in-depth details.
DETAILS OF ALLEGATIONS
Mr
Chairman, I have decided to capture properly the allegations I leveled
against the Speaker and 12 others so that you will understand the
gravity of the matter at hand and also understand that the allegations
are beyond budget issues and includes tens of other criminal allegations
that cannot be swept under the carpet. The allegations are against the
following:
i.Speaker Yakubu Dogara,
ii.Deputy Speaker Yusuf Lasun,
iii.House Whip Alhassan Ado Doguwa,
iv.Minority Leader Leo Ogor.
v. Hon Herma Hembe
vi. Hon Mohammed Bago
vii. Hon Zakari Mohammed
viii. Hon Chike Okafor
viiii. Hon Dan Asuquo
X. Hon Jagaba Adams Jagaba
Xi. Hon Haliru Jika
Xii. Hon Babanle Ila
Xiii. Hon Abonta Abonta
i.Speaker Yakubu Dogara,
ii.Deputy Speaker Yusuf Lasun,
iii.House Whip Alhassan Ado Doguwa,
iv.Minority Leader Leo Ogor.
v. Hon Herma Hembe
vi. Hon Mohammed Bago
vii. Hon Zakari Mohammed
viii. Hon Chike Okafor
viiii. Hon Dan Asuquo
X. Hon Jagaba Adams Jagaba
Xi. Hon Haliru Jika
Xii. Hon Babanle Ila
Xiii. Hon Abonta Abonta
Speaker Yakubu Dogara and the three others fraudulently shortchanged the House of Representatives and
abused their offices by unilaterally taking away 40 Billion Naira out
of the 100 Billion Naira allocated for constituency projects and
distributing same to themselves and the trio of Deputy Speaker Yusuf
Lasun, House Whip Alhassan Ado Doguwa and Minority Leader Leo Ogor and
others without the approval of the House
Speaker
Yakubu Dogara approached our client with personal requests of about 30
Billion Naira to be inserted into the 2016 budget. Our clients refusal
to get that done caused a major rift between them which has escalated
beyond measure
Speaker
Dogara acting in concert with the aforenamed trio and as against the
advice of our client inserted wasteful projects for their constituencies
worth about 20 Billion Naira.
Our
client also complained to Speaker Dogara that the Chairmen of about 10
out of the 96 standing committees of the House have inserted over 2000
projects worth about 284 Billion Naira but his complaint was ignored
because the Speaker was acting in cahoots with them.
That
in a bid to ensure that his nefarious intentions are met, the Speaker
took away the appropriations committee secretariat on two occasions
where several insertions were made into the budget and this created
avoidable tension during the budget process.
The
Speaker also gave directions to our client to create a strange line
item in the service wide vote to allow for a 20 Billion Naira insertion
into the budget under the name of National Assembly. Our client refused
to accede to this request.
The
Speaker fraudulently diverted a Federal Government water project to his
farm in Nasarawa State and the source of funding for the farm remain
questionable
The Speaker also made a fraudulent arrangements to deduct monthly from money meant for members office running cost to fund a so-called dubious mortgage arrangement
The
Speaker abused his office by directing an agency to grant loans and
also arrange frequent private meetings with heads of MDA's in a clear
case of corruption and conflict of interest.
The
Speaker acting in concert with the above named trio allocated to
themselves the entire 20% inputs reserved for the House of
Representatives after the harmonization exercise.
The
Speaker fraudulently collected undisclosed millions of Naira in a scam
arrangement for the rent of houses and guest houses acting in collusion
with Deputy Speaker Yusuf Lasun and Hon. Herman Hembe. It is a matter of
public knowledge in the House that Lasun had openly accused Hembe of
having carted away some millions from the illicit money
The
Speaker has ordered that all the computers in the appropriation
secretariat be shut down and moved to his office whilst the secretariat
staff are being harassed to keep quiet and suppress facts relating to
the entire budget and there has been attempts by agents of the speaker
to burgle our client’s office to steal vital documents.
The
Speaker also allowed several wasteful procurement of needless items,
including ones that are already in the offices of members as a ploy to
siphon funds of the House
The
Speaker has despite several protest from members continue to run the
management of finances of the House and it's budget in absolute secrecy
in the face of several allegations of sharp practices
The
Speaker was involved in money laundry cases in the House and was the
architect of the fraudulent multi billion naira car purchase contract
when he was Chairman House services committee
And allegations of harassment and attempt to kidnap or kill me by Speaker Dogara and his corrupt gang.
He is using his office as Speaker to sabotage the on going investigation
1.Honourable Herma Hembe:
Honourable Herman Hembe is the member representing Vandeikya/KonshishaFederal Constituency of Benue State and also the Chairman of the House Committee on the Federal Capital Territory. Honourable Hembe lives way above his means from funds. Apart from being adept at misappropriation, He has plenty questions to answer for movement of massive amount of money in the Federal Capital Territory budget.
Honourable Herman Hembe is the member representing Vandeikya/KonshishaFederal Constituency of Benue State and also the Chairman of the House Committee on the Federal Capital Territory. Honourable Hembe lives way above his means from funds. Apart from being adept at misappropriation, He has plenty questions to answer for movement of massive amount of money in the Federal Capital Territory budget.
2.Honourable Umar Mohammed Bago:
Hon Umar Mohammed Bago is the member representing Chanchanga Federal Constituency of Niger State and also the Chairman of the House Committee on marine transport. The fraudulent investigative hearing organized by Hon Umar Mohammed Bago with support of Speaker Yakubu Dogara wherein he invited about 1000 companies as a conduit to extort money. The source of money used to fund the investigative hearing has remained a mystery
Hon Umar Mohammed Bago is the member representing Chanchanga Federal Constituency of Niger State and also the Chairman of the House Committee on marine transport. The fraudulent investigative hearing organized by Hon Umar Mohammed Bago with support of Speaker Yakubu Dogara wherein he invited about 1000 companies as a conduit to extort money. The source of money used to fund the investigative hearing has remained a mystery
3.Honourable Zakari Mohammed:
Honourable Zakari Mohammed represents Baruten/ Kaiama Federal Constituency of Kwara State and also the Chairman House Committee on higher education. He made a complete mess of the higher education committee budget through massive movements of funds and hundred of insertions. To investigate allegations of bribery against him and Speaker Yakubu Dogara over roles they played in the NNPC crude oil SWAP investigation.
Honourable Zakari Mohammed represents Baruten/ Kaiama Federal Constituency of Kwara State and also the Chairman House Committee on higher education. He made a complete mess of the higher education committee budget through massive movements of funds and hundred of insertions. To investigate allegations of bribery against him and Speaker Yakubu Dogara over roles they played in the NNPC crude oil SWAP investigation.
4.Honourable Chike Okafor:
Honourable Chike Okafor is the member representing Ehime Mbano/ Obowo/ Ihitte of Imo State and also the Chairman House committee on health. To investigate Honourable Chike Okafor for being involved in and responsible for the movement of colossal amounts of money in the Health Committee budget.
Honourable Chike Okafor is the member representing Ehime Mbano/ Obowo/ Ihitte of Imo State and also the Chairman House committee on health. To investigate Honourable Chike Okafor for being involved in and responsible for the movement of colossal amounts of money in the Health Committee budget.
5.Honourable Dan Asuquo:
Honourable Dan Asuquo represents Akamkpa/Biase Federal Constituency of Cross Rivers State and also the Chairman of the House Committee on Power. To investigate his involvement in and responsibility for the movement of massive amounts of money in the Power budget.
Honourable Dan Asuquo represents Akamkpa/Biase Federal Constituency of Cross Rivers State and also the Chairman of the House Committee on Power. To investigate his involvement in and responsibility for the movement of massive amounts of money in the Power budget.
6.Honourable Jagaba Adams Jagaba
Honourable Jagaba Adam is the member representing Kachia/Kagarko Federal Constituency of Kaduna State and also the Chairman House committee on Power. To investigate his movement of massive amounts of money in the interior budget.
Honourable Jagaba Adam is the member representing Kachia/Kagarko Federal Constituency of Kaduna State and also the Chairman House committee on Power. To investigate his movement of massive amounts of money in the interior budget.
7.Honourable Haliru Jika
Honourable Haliru Jika represents Darazo/Gunjuwa Federal Constituency of Bauchi State and is also the Chairman of the House Committee on Police Affairs. To investigate his movement of massive amounts of money into the Police budget.
Honourable Haliru Jika represents Darazo/Gunjuwa Federal Constituency of Bauchi State and is also the Chairman of the House Committee on Police Affairs. To investigate his movement of massive amounts of money into the Police budget.
8 Honourable Babanle Ila
Hon Babanle Ila represent Tarauni Federal Constituency of Kano state and is also the Chairman House services committee. To investigate thoroughly the wasteful contracts awarded under his and the Speaker's watch in order to justify spending and non disclosure of the finances of the house
Hon Babanle Ila represent Tarauni Federal Constituency of Kano state and is also the Chairman House services committee. To investigate thoroughly the wasteful contracts awarded under his and the Speaker's watch in order to justify spending and non disclosure of the finances of the house
9-Hon Abonta Abonta
He is the Chairman House committee on public petition. To investigate allegation of embezzlement, misuse and misappropriation of millions of naira meant for the running of his office.
He is the Chairman House committee on public petition. To investigate allegation of embezzlement, misuse and misappropriation of millions of naira meant for the running of his office.
Just
to bring you up to date Sir, I have forwarded to the anti corruption
agencies documents showing how Speaker Dogara and the 3 others allocated
the 40billion naira they stole from 100billion for constituency
project, how they inserted about 20billion naira of wasteful projects,
how they cornered the entire 20% of inputs reserved for the house after
the harmonization exercise, attempts to force in about 30billion naira
of wasteful projects into the budget, attempt to force me to introduce a
strange line item and insert about 20billion naira in the service wide
vote using the name of nass, evidence showing that indeed about 10
standing committees of the house made about 2000 insertions in budget
worth about 284billion naira and indeed reports of 6 standing committees
showing massive movement of money with clear intent to commit fraud.
I
have also commenced providing the anti corruption agencies clue on how
investigative hearings in the house under Speaker Dogara are used as
conduit pipes to carry out massive corruption and how the house services
committee chairman and the Speaker runs and spend money meant for the
House in absolute secrecy. I will continue to cooperate with the
anti-corruption agencies and
guide them on how to crack the code of curruption that has assumed a
monumental proportion under the very corrupt Speaker Dogara.
WAY FORWARD
Mr
Chairman sir, you will agree with me that the world is watching to see
how the APC will deal with this issue of incontrovertible
corruption in high places. We have a golden opportunity to show the
world that there is zero tolerance for corruption in our great party the
APC. Even more, is the willingness of a serving member in my person who
understands these issues and who has offered to stand as witness and
provide every support to the anti corruption agencies to investigate the
allegations thoroughly and commence prosecution in earnest. There is no
better way of demonstrating our commitment to the fight against
corruption than to use Speaker Yakubu Dogara and the 12 others as
example. You will also agree with me that in the face of all these
allegations and back and forth in his utterances, Speaker Yakubu Dogara
and the other Principal Officers have lost the moral ground to continue
in office.
They
have become a baggage that should be off loaded by the APC before they
inflict an irreparable damage to the Party. From every part of Nigeria
and the world, that is the opinion of people. The party must act very
quickly and decisively. In his usual mischievous manner, Speaker Dogara
is bandying around religious and ethnic cards. He has so soon forgotten
those that led the campaign that brought him up as Speaker in the first
place. As a way forward, I wish to recommend the following;
1-To
direct Speaker Yakubu Dogara to reconvene the House and step down with
other accused Principal Officers immediately to allow for internal and
external investigation without interference so that sanity will return
2-To
nominate a Speaker Pro Tempore and mobilize our members to support him
to take over and adjourn the House until when we are due for resumption
in September. This will give room for consultations on the election of a
new Speaker when we resume
3-To Insist on internal reform of the activities of the House and ensure that the new Speaker implements it fully.
4-To
discuss on the possibility of returning the N100billion constituency
project component of the budget under any of our laws so that all stolen
money can be returned particularly the 40billion naira and equitably
distributed to all constituencies.
5-To
discuss if the party so desire, Iam offering to identify all the toxic
insertions by Speaker Dogara and 12 others in the budget so that they
can be removed. We have different laws under which that can be done.
I strongly believe that if these recommendations are
implemented, it will go along way in resolving the crisis and provide
the ventilation for the House to commence the process of internal
reforms and self cleansing to repair its battered image and restore the
trust of Nigerians in the House.
This will also provide a relief for the party and the government that had been completely embarrassed with this development.
Mr
Chairman, Iam available and always at your service should there arise a
need for me to provide further explanation in person as regard my
letter.
Thank you very much for your attention
Yours in service to the Nation
Hon Abdulmumin JibrinAPC-Kano
Kiru-Bebeji Federal Constituency
Kano
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