The Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on National Planning and Economic Matters, Bashir Baballe has admitted that there were insertions in the 2016 Budget after it has been debated on the floor of the House.
The budget padding scandal rocking Nigeria’s House of Representatives is back in public domain as Abdulmumin Jibrin alleges that Speaker Yakubu Dogara was planning with the 12 others to kill him.
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has waded into the ongoing budget-padding controversy in the House of Representatives, involving the former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin and the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, asking the former to stop going public with his allegations.
Former chairman of the house committee on appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, who has been making series of corruption allegation against Speaker Yakubu Dogara and three other principal officers of the House, has been summoned by his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has exonerated himself from the ongoing budget-padding brouhaha rocking the green chamber of the National assembly, while urging Nigerians not to judge the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara and the three other principal officers currently embroiled in the controversy.
