Budget Padding: Whistleblower, Abdulmumin Jibrin Advised to Undergo Psychiatric Test

 

The budget padding saga in the House of Representatives has taken a comical turn with principal officers taking swipes at the former Chairman, Committee on Appropriation, Mr. Abdulmumin Jibrin.

 

The 39 year old lawmaker from Kano has been urged by some principal officers in the green chamber to visit the nearest hospital to examine his head against any brewing medical challenges that could be militating against his sense of reasoning and judgement.

The leaders, whom The PUNCH learnt were taken aback by Jibrin’s latest allegations that they pocketed “illegal” N10 billion as office allowances between 2003 and this year, had also said his sudden change of focus from budget-padding allegations to the allowances of members, might be proof that he needed medical attention.

Jibrin had on Friday last week, alleged that the 10 principal officers of the House had “embezzled” over N10bn allocated as “running costs” between 2003 and this year.

The officers are the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara; Deputy Speaker, Yussuff  Lasun; House Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila; Chief Whip, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa;  Deputy Leader, Buba Jibril; Deputy Whip, Pally Iriase; Minority Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor ;Deputy Minority Leader, Chukwuka Onyeama; Minority Whip, Yakubu Barde; and Deputy Minority Whip, Binta Bello-Maigeri.

People's Democratic Party chieftain, Leo Ogor who voiced out on the recent revelation of Jibrin accused him of churning of baseless figures that can't be verified.
 

“His case is fast getting out of hands. Honestly, he needs help to stop peddling lies and to deliberately rubbish the names of his colleagues and the institution of the National Assembly.

“I have seen that this man has an issue with his head and he should see a psychiatrist. Tests should be conducted on him urgently. I don’t know what he stands to gain by peddling lies against his colleagues,” Ogor said.