Budget Scandal: Abdulmumin To Meet Presidential Arms Committee Aug 31

The sacked Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Hon. Jibrin Abdulmumin, has received an invitation from the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption to brief the committee on the allegations of corruption levelled against the House Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, and three principal officers.

Abdulmumin revealed this on his twitter handle Tuesday.

“In another victory for my journey to ensure that justice is served on Dogara, Lasun, Doguwa, Ogor and nine other members, I have received official invitation from the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN),  to make a comprehensive presentation to the committee on the allegations I raised against the Speaker and others, and discuss strategies on how to achieve results. The letter was signed by Executive Secretary of the Committee,  Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye,” the tweets read.

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Budget Padding: Abdulmumin Seeks Court Protection From Arrest

In a dramatic twist to the row over the 2016 budget padding allegations causing disharmony in the House of Representatives, the hunter now appears to be the hunted, going by emerging development.

The erstwhile Chairman of the Committee on Appropriation, Jibrin Abdulmumin, who made the budget-padding allegation, has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order to restrain the Nigerian Police from arresting him.

The respondents in the suit are the Nigeria Police, the Inspector-General of Police, the Commissioner of Police (FCT), Hon. Yakubu Dogara, Hon. Yusuf Lasun, Hon. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, Hon. Leo Ogor and the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami.
The lawmaker, in his tweets and statements had given the impression that he was enjoying the cooperation of the police, over the allegations against Dogara and others.

But Abdulmumin, in the suit filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja with No: FHC/ABJ/CS/595, said there was a police siege on his home and that up till the time of filing the suit on August 9, 2016, the siege was still in force.

The affidavit deposed on his behalf by his legislative aide, Mr. Bashir Bello said this was “in a bid to arrest him unlawfully and achieve their pre-determined aim of tampering with his fundamental human rights.”

Abdulmumin, in the suit, accused the police of plotting to “nab him and also put him out of circulation and so as to lay their hands on the said documents and destroy the evidence therein, and avoid a leakage of their roles in the budget issue.”
The embattled lawmaker, in a separate suit, also sued Dogara, the Clerk of the House and others, to restrain the lower chamber from suspending him.

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