Jibrin reveals shocking allowances of Nigeria’s House of Reps members..
This is coming after the budget padding controversy that has enveloped the legislative body.
Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, and Jibrin, have for weeks engaged in verbal exchanges, blaming each other for the padding of the 2016 budget.
On Friday, Jibrin, who has been very outspoken on his official Twitter page since he launched his attack on Mr. Dogara, again took to the social media site to reveal how much some of the lawmakers have received since they’ve been in the House.
Below are his tweets:
“In line with my resolve to continue to expose individual and systemic corruption in House, I will today commence the disclosure of what many
Nigerians believe is almost impossible to reveal or are not even aware of – the allowances of Members of the House
My resolve to open up the controversial allowances should be instructive to those who think I am only out to get Dogara out of his seat
If that is my mission, I will definitely not go into the issue of allowances, which is the only aspect that unites the entire House
But if members and Nigerians feel at home with Dogara, a corrupt no4 citizen, despite overwhelming allegations against him and his gang, so be it!
If my colleagues chose to support the Speaker, I wish them safe journey. But on this struggle, I shall continue even if I am alone!
I will continue this crusade to wipe out corruption in the House and trigger internal reforms so that Nigns can have the ideal representative
The imperative of having a corrupt-free House of Representatives cannot be over-emphasized
It is only when the House comes with purity that effective oversight can be done&investigative hearing to expose fraud can be undertaken
When the House is corrupt, it affects the whole country because the House of Representatives is the largest representation of Nigerians
This must be the focus of the fight against corruption. The root of our economic,political&social problems as a country lies in the House
No amount of economic strategy will succeed in this country if we do not put hands together&decisively deal with corruption in the House
Now we come to the crux of the matter. It should be noted, however, that money is voted as “running cost” to members apart from salaries
You don’t need a professor or a committee of technocrats to tell you what is reasonable as running cost for member of the House Reps and also how the money should be administered and who should be the recipient of the money
The way the allowances of members is currently structured can not pass the integrity test of any of the aforesaid. The allowances is systemic corruption that should be dealt with in phases since you can not afford the systemic shock of a oneoff attack.
Today, I will start with the 10 Principal Officers of the House. If just these 10 are named and shamed it will force reform in the House
I will therefore provide what each one of them had collected as “office running cost” in their entire stay in the House
If any one of them disputes my figure,They should not make drama out of it,just simply tell the country how much he or she has collected
Running cost is a money collected by many members (with a few exception) and used as personal funds. No more, no less – case closed!
Most of these members use it to acquire properties, cars and live a life of luxury they never had before coming to the House
Though there exist systems for retirement but a simple investigation by a primary school pupil will reveal the massive fraud therein
From computation of various sub heads of allowances of the House, the 10 Principal Officers received various amounts as follows
Speaker Yakubu Dogara has been in the House from 2007 to date. He has received about 1.5billion .http://Teekayspeaks.blogspot.com
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