The suspended former chairman of
the House of Representatives appropriation committee, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has
said that the resolution by the House to invite him to respond to two petitions
against him was an attempt to divert attention from the fraud allegedly
committed by some key members.
But in his reaction yesterday,
Jibrin said the “disgraceful action” was an extension of the witch-hunt
allegedly launched against him by “Speaker Yakubu Dogara and his corrupt cabal
in the House to paint me in a negative light and divert attention away from the
corruption hanging on their necks.”
Jibrin said, in a statement that
“it is curious that the ethics committee refused to admit and rejected 18
petitions against the Speaker and some principal officers of the House
bothering on monumental budget fraud, unprecedented abuse of office and massive
corruption, but shamelessly reduced the entire activities of the ethics
committee to witch-hunt Hon Jibrin.
“This latest assault is coming
because the security and anti-graft agencies have made advance progress on
investigation which has led to the freezing of the accounts of some principal
officers,” he said.
Source:Daily Trust
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