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Budget-Padding Tracker: 3 versions of 2016 budget submitted to police

Ousted House of Representatives Appropriations Committee chairman Abdulmumin Jibrin yesterday sent three versions of the 2016 budget to the police as the force began investigations of his allegation of padding. According to The Nation, the Special Investigation Panel (SIP) of the force has started sieving the documents to isolate the padded areas. Jibrin had petitioned the... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: EFCC starts probe of Senate Committee on Appropriations

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has started the probe of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, following the alleged padding of the 2016 national budget. The allegations were made by the former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin against Speaker, Yakubu Dogara and other principal officers of the... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: Jibrin defies APC’s directives, indicts 2 governors

The former chairman House of Representatives committee on Appropriation Abdulmumin Jibrin has defied an order by his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC barring him from speaking to the press on the issue of budget padding in any manner. Jibrin had been summoned by the APC to its secretariat were he was barred from speaking... Read More

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SERAP blasts Dogara, says budget padding is corruption

Civil Rights Group Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has blasted the Speaker of the House of Representatives Mr Yakubu Dogara for his statement that “budget padding is not a crime under Nigerian law.” Dogara made the statement while fielding questions from statehouse correspondents minutes after he held a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: Dogara in desperate search for support

As the budget accusation rocking the House of Representatives continues to heighten, Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, is on a desperate search for an additional 28 members to help secure his position as the Speaker, the Nations reports. Former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, had accused the speaker of padding the... Read More

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Falana warns APC against stopping budget padding investigation

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria and human rights activist Femi Falana has warned the All Progressives Congress APC against interfering in the budget padding scandal rocking the House of Representatives. According to The Punch, Falana said that Dogara should be given the benefit of the doubt, adding that the issue of prosecution does not arise at... Read More

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Budget padding is not an offence, I won’t resign – Dogara

Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara says budget padding is not an offence. Dogara made the statement while speaking with statehouse correspondents shortly after he met with President Buhari. He also said that he would not resign his position as speaker despite the allegations leveled against him by Honourable Abdulmumin Jibrin. More to... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: Northern students call for Jibrin’s probe

Northern Nigerian Students’ Association, NONSA, has called for the probe of former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin over his allegations that the 2016 national budget was padded. Briefing newsmen on Thursday, in Sokoto, President of NONSA, Comrade Basheer Gorau said Jibrin was in charge of the budget for a year, stating that... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: Jibrin to re-appear before police panel with documents

As the controversy surrounding the row over the padding of the 2016 budget continues, former House of Representatives’ Appropriation Committee chairman Abdulmumin Jibrin has been invited again for questioning by the Police Special Investigation Panel (SIP) to clear some grey areas in the petition. Jibrin is to appear before the panel which would be chaired... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: Dogara to meet with Buhari today

As the controversy in the House of Representatives continue to deepen, President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday meet with Speaker of the House or Representatives, Yakubu Dogara. According to the Punch who spoke to sources in the Presidency, the budget padding accusations currently rocking the House will be a major part of the discussion between... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: APC stops Jibrin from speaking against Dogara, others in public

The ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), on Thursday, cautioned the former Chairman of the House of Representative Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, against speaking out about the House leadership in public. This was revealed this in a letter sent to Jibrin through the APC’s Deputy National Chairman (North), Lawal Shuaibu. Jibrin have in the past... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: Jibrin is an inconsequential, unintelligent fellow – Deputy Chief of Staff, Speaker

The Deputy Chief of Staff to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. C.I.D Maduabum, has said claims by former Chairman House Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin that Speaker Dogara is giving out $25,000 to members of the House to support him are not true. Maduabum said this in a statement he released on... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: Dogara is paying Reps $25,000 to sign vote of confidence register – Jibrin

Former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin has said Speaker Yakubu Dogara and three other principal officers he accused of budget padding have ‘desperately’ opened a vote of confidence register to gather support from other members of the House. He further accused the quartet of giving $25,000 to each member... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: Dogara, others to appear before police panel on Friday

As the budget padding scandal continues to rock the House of Representatives, the Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has constituted a five-man special team to investigate the allegations of budget padding against the Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, and other principal officers of the House. The Special Investigative Panel (SIP) led by the Assistant... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: Dogara should step aside and save the country further embarrassment – Jibrin

Abdulmumin Jibrin, former Chairman of the Appropriation Committee of the House of Representatives, is not done painting the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, black as he has made another inciting accusation against the Speaker. Jibrin, in a statement released on Tuesday, said that the Dogara, in collaboration with Deputy Speaker, Yusuf Lasun,... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: APC says it cannot discipline Jibrin

The former chairman of the House of Representatives Appropriation committee, Abdulmumin Jibrin on Tuesday met with leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja over the budget padding issue rocking the House. According to Premium Times the party said that it sent an invitation letter to Jibrin because he deliberately made... Read More

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Just In: Jibrin meets with APC leaders over budget padding allegations

The former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin is currently in a meeting with the leadership of the All Progre‎ssives Congress (APC), following his claims that Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara padded the 2016 national budget to the tune of N40 billion. According to Vanguard, Jibrin arrived the secretariat around 2:09pm... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: Gbajabiamila opens up

The budget padding scandal in the House of Representatives is one issue that would continue to be spken about in days and weeks to come. Accusations and counter-accusations keep flying from left, right and centre. The man in the eye of the storm, Hon, Abdulmumin Jibrin is not backing out as he has approached anti-graft... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: Committee Chairman denies allegations, dares Jibrin

Following allegations by former Chairman House Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin that some committee chairmen padded the budget with 2000 fictitious projects worth N284b, one of them has denied it. Zakari Mohammed, Chairman of the committee on Basic Education has denied having any knowledge about Jibrin’s allegations in a statement released on Monday. Jibrin had... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: Jibrin’s revelations raise more questions than answers – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has added its voice to the current “budget padding” impasse in the House of Representatives. In a statement released on Monday by its Director, New Media, Deji Adeyanju the party said that the “revelations” made by a former chairman of the appropriation committee in the House, Abdulmumin Jibrin, raises more... Read More

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‘Constitution allows House of Reps to pad any budget from Presidency’- Jibrin

Former Chairman of the Appropriation Committee in the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin has revealed that even though the chambers had the right to ‘pad’ any budget presented before it, he discovered over N284 billion inserted into the 2016 budget by the House of Representatives. He also accused the leadership of the House of recklessness... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: Dogara’s security details may be withdrawn

There are insinuations that the Federal Government may withdraw the security details attached to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara over the controversy surrounding the 2016 budget, The Vanguard reports. Reports also say that the Majority leader of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila is likely to be drawn into the budget padding brouhaha as a document linking... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: DSS has no business investigating reps – Falana

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and civil rights activist, Femi Falana has said that the Depart of State Service has no business investigating allegations of budget padding in the National Assembly. A former chairman of the Appropriation committee in the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin had accused the speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara,... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: Jibrin releases pictures of Dogara’s ‘guest houses’ in Abuja

Former Chaiman of the House committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin has released pictures of what he called guest houses of Speaker Dogara along Panama Crescent in Maitama Abuja. Jibrin sent the pictures to Premium Times Saturday night. Jibrin had repeatedly said in his allegations that Dogara allegedly looted funds meant for legislative duties personal use.... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: SERAP demands Dogara, others to resign

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has written an open letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives Dogara Yakubu requesting that he and other principal officers accused of budget padding by a former chairman of the House committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin step aside pending the outcome of investigation by the Economic... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: Involving DSS is wrong – Ogor

The Minority Leader in the House of Representatives, Leo Ogor, on Saturday said the State Security Service, SSS should not have been involved in the budget padding crisis in the assembly. Ogor said the police and the two anti-graft agencies, EFCC and ICPC, were more appropriate to investigate the scandal. Ogor spoke following the announcement... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: SSS seals Appropriations committee office

Following the budget padding allegations saga in the House of Representatives, agents of the State Security Service on Saturday, reportedly sealed the House committee on Appropriation secretariat. According to Premium Times, SSS officials stormed the secretariat and immediately placed it under lock and key. The budget padding allegations started when former Chairman House Committee on... Read More

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Budget padding is a norm in NASS – Senator Omoworare

Senator Babajide Omoworare has joined the list of past and present lawmakers to admit budgets are padded. The Senator representing Osun East Senatorial District, said it is a fact that federal lawmakers do tinker with budgets to suit their selfish interests. According to Omoworare, a National Assembly Budget Research Office should be created as a... Read More

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Budget-Padding Tracker: Jibrin requests Dogara’s arrest, petitions EFCC, ICPC

Former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Friday sought the arrest of the Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara at office of the Directorate of State Services (DSS) for his role in the alleged budget padding. Jibrin made this known in tweet on his official twitter handle. He wrote,... Read More

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