In an interview with Channels TV which was aired yesterday evening,
sacked chairman of the House of the Representatives Committee on Appropriation,
Abdulmumin Jibrin, says he was never part of the 2016 padding which he described as
insertion.
Read what he said:
"Well, I wasn't part of the insertions but I think I also didn't help myself because I
started speaking quite late. The event that pushed me to start talking doesn't
look too attractive to people because they are saying why am I talking now that I
have left the position".
In the interview he denied claims of inserting projects worth N4.1 billion for his
constituency into the budget
"Absolutely false. My problem is that I wasn't talking. I came into the National
Assembly pretty young and psychologically, you are made to believe that when
you are chairman of appropriation, you have to be secretive"he said.
When asked if the House of Representatives is corrupt, Jibrin said "There is corruption
in the house of Representatives. There is institutional corruption and these are things I
can prove".
According to him, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo wasn't completely wrong
when he described the National Assembly as a house filled with rogues and thieves
"Obasanjo is not completely wrong. There is corruption. The only thing is that we
keep living in denial. I have been part of the system and I know there is
corruption in the system and there is also institutional corruption in that
system"he said.
Jibrin says even though he has been in the house for 5 years, he has never been
involved in any act of corruption.
"I have never been in any act corruption. I have never shared money in the
National assembly. Never!"
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