NASS SCANDAL: Federal Government Orders Withdrawal Of Speaker Dogara Security Details
It was also gathered that a document linking the Majority leader of the
House, Femi Gbajabimila with constituency projects worth over N4 billion
which is domiciled in Osun and Niger States against the initial N1.8
billion constituency projects allocated to him was in circulation.
This is just as the secretariat of the House Appropriation Committee was
on Sunday still under the watch of about four security operatives.
Security sources hinted that the withdrawal of security aides to the
principal officers allegedly fingered in the budget brouhaha was ensure
that there was no obstruction on the course of investigations.
Investigations revealed that the security personnel that were guiding
the appropriation committee secretariat were not the regular operatives
from the National Assembly.
Meanwhile about 27 civil society organisations have raised the alarm of
alleged conspiracy with external forces against the leadership of the
House of Representatives, saying that if nothing was done to apply
caution, it would threaten the democracy in the country.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, the national coordinator of Human
Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko
alongside other 26 CSOs, said “It is disingenuous for the sacked
Appropriation committee chairman, Abdulmumin Jibrin to make any claims
of exposing massive corruption in the House, accusing speaker Yakubu
Dogara of moves to personally smuggle N30bn into 2016 budget.”
He said that the understanding of the powers of the National Assembly
seems to say that the legislature is constitutionally empowered to vet
proposed budget since these elected officials were not rubber stamps of
the president.
Source: Vanguard News
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