Return N10m or more you took as running cost or I will stand as a witness against you in court - Abdulmumin Jibrin tells lawmakers

A day after he was suspended by the House for failing to appear before the Ethics and Privileges committee over allegations of budget padding he leveled against Speaker Dogara and others, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has released a statement in which he demanded all the lawmakers in the house to return the over N10 million monthly running cost money they have fraudulently collected since they came into the chambers or he will stand as a witness against them in coutrt. 

In a statement he shared on his Facebook page, Jibrin said he has sent a letter to all the lawmakers asking them to return the money to the Clerk of the House. 

With regards to the Presiding and Principal Officers, Jibrin says he has given them 72 hours ultimatum to make public the total amount they have received as running cost in their entire stay in the House and failure of which he will proceed with necessary legal action to compel them to make the total amount each of them have received public. According to him, Nigeria is currently facing economic recession and so needs all of such money. Read the statement below...

I HAVE COMMENCED THE PROCESS OF EXPOSING THE RUNNING COST AND ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION THERE IN WITH MY LETTER TODAY TO HON MEMBERS TO REFUND ANY MONEY STOLEN OR ILLEGALLY TAKEN. READ LETTER BELLOW AND LIKE-SHARE-COMMENT IF YOU SUPPORT A TOTAL WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION IN THE HOUSE

September 29, 2016

TO ALL HONOURABLE MEMBERS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
ABUJA

My dear Colleagues,

BURDEN OF PROOF OF EVIDENCE: RUNNING COST OF HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

I wish to draw your attention to the fact that since you suspended me yesterday and the suggestion of the Ethics Committee report that my allegations were generalized and without proof, I have come under intense public scrutiny and pressure to prove that there exists systemic corruption in the House. I have taken it as a responsibility to prove to the public that the House is a den of systemic corruption. As colleagues, I have bound with many of you and built a life long friendship.

I have some of you that I hold in high esteem. If you end up at the receiving end of the actions I will be taking up in the next few days, I want you to know there is nothing personal but commitment and fervent desire to ensure that corruption is wiped out of the House and reforms that will restore the battered image of the House and take back the House to the Nigerian people is implemented.

Consequent upon the above and before I proceed with the aggressive steps I intend to take, I hereby DEMAND that if you have illegally taken or stolen any money meant for the RUNNING COST OF YOUR OFFICES FOR YOUR ENTIRE STAY IN THE HOUSE, YOU SHOULD RETURN THE MONEY WITHIN ONE WEEK TO THE CLERK OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLARITY, I AM REFERRING TO ABOUT 10MILLION NAIRA YOU COLLECT FROM TAX PAYERS' MONEY MONTHLY OR MORE IN THE PAST. THE CLERK WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH OFFICIAL ACCOUNT DETAILS, FAILURE OF WHICH I WILL TAKE NECESSARY ACTION TO ENSURE THAT YOU RETURN ANY MONEY STOLEN AND STAND WITNESS AGAINST YOU IN CASE OF PROSECUTION.

I have written to the Clerk of the National Assembly to stand by in anticipation. In the face of the revenue challenges and biting hardship the country is currently facing, there is no better time the country needs such money than now.

In the case of the Presiding and Principal Officers, in addition to my demand in this letter which applies to them too, I have written them yesterday and gave them 72 hours ULTIMATUM to make public the total amount they have received as running cost in their entire stay in the House, failure of which I will proceed with necessary legal action to compel them to make the total amount each of them have received public.

There are other issues of monumental corruption in the House that I will be raising in the following weeks which we must all deal with, but first lets get done with this one.

Thank you.

God bless.

Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin PhD MBA
APC-Kano
Kiru-Bebeji Federal Constituency
Kano

This post first appeared on Linda Ikeji's Blog. Read the original story here.