Jibrin denies operating Foreign Account
…Dogara diverting attention from budget padding allegations
Embattled former chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, has denied reports making the rounds that he owns an account with ING Bank of UK with a balance of £1.3 million saying he neither owns nor operates such an account.
The call follows media publication wherein a group, the National Youth Council of Nigeria claimed it had traced £1.558 million (N825 million) to a United Kingdom account allegedly owned by him.
In a statement issued, on Monday, the embattled lawmaker noted that the report was one of many propaganda used by Speaker Yakubu Dogara to discredit him as well as divert attention from the budget fraud allegations made against him and some principal officers of the House.
The statement reads : “My attention has been drawn to a widely circulated report in the media that I own an account with ING bank UK with Essex adress and balance of £1.3m.
“The document is FAKE, I DO NOT own such account or balance neither do I have anything what so ever to do with the said address at Essex.
“This blackmail is part of a wider propaganda arranged by the desperate Speaker Dogara through his Deputy Chief of Staff Hon CID Maduebum.
Jibrin also alleged that the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Speaker, Hon. Cyril Maduabum out of desperation, employed and paid N20 million to Ifeanyi Okonkwo and Ikenga UgoChinyere of the Youth Council of Nigeria to blackmail him.
He said: “Hon Maduebum has recruited and paid 20million naira to one Ifeanyi Okonkwo and Ikenga Ugochinyere of a shadow youth organisation to do the hatched job.
“You will recall that the same group went to town with the allegations of 17 billion and 418 million naira which all turned out a fluke.
“Ahead of resumption of the House, they are back at work to divert attention from the allegations of budget fraud and corruption against Speaker Dogara.
“The plan is to creat credibility problem for me as I prepare to release more revelations of corruption by Dogara that will send shock down the spines of Nigerians.
“It is curious that all the allegations on me are made by faceless or shadow organizations, no Member of House has signed any allegation on me.
“I am therefore calling on the relevant authorities to investigate and take decisive action on this latest assault on my person and unveil the real sponsors.
“I will be reporting these hatchet men to the police and EFCC this morning and my lawyers are taking the necessary legal actions. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!.
“I urge the general public to disregard this latest blackmail as the document in circulation is not worth a toilet paper!”, Jibrin stated.
Meanwhile, a principal officer in the office of the Speaker alleged by Jibrin to be the arrow head used by Dogara to promote the allegation, Cyril Maduabum who is the deputy chief of staff to the speaker has distant himself from the whole saga.
According to him; “ My attention has just been drawn to statement issued by Hon Abdulmumin Jubrin, where he as usual said that I gave money to some people to tell the truth about his Foreign Account they discovered in the UK.
I formally deny this new allegation and denounce it as the hallucination of a deranged psychopath, a drowning man who is catching on all straws to rescue himself from the deep hole he is in. This has shown once again that corruption and lies are an essential part of Hon Jibrin’s DNA. He obviously thinks that everybody must be bribed to act patriotically to expose his corruption and nefarious activities.
I feel sorry for the media that unwittingly play into his hands by publishing his continuously false and libelous vituperations. Hon Jibrin is so unintelligent that he has not seen that his pattern is an open one. Once you say anything against him, he immediately manufactures some imaginary bribe being given to the person by persons he picks at a whim. I have chosen to respond once again not because Hon Jibrin is worthy of a reply but just to set the records straight”
