The House of Representatives has recalled Abdulmumin Jibrin, lawmaker representing Bebeji/Kiru constituency in Kano state. The lawmaker was suspended on September 28, 2016, 180 legislative days after he raised an alarm of the alleged padding of the 2016 budget. The lawmaker was recalled following a letter of apology which Jibril wrote to the lawmakers on Tuesday.
At the time of his suspension, the lawmaker, who was chairman of the appropriation committee, was also banned from holding any position in the house. The letter of apology was announced during plenary by Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house.
Although he did not read the content of the letter, the speaker said by implication, the lawmaker can resume “if he wishes”. Jibril accused Dogara and other principal officers of the house of allegedly attempting to pad N30 billion projects into the budget.
He said his “inability to allow” the said projects into the budgets “became an issue” with the lawmakers.
He had also alleged that the speaker, deputy speaker, chief whip and minority leader had allocated “billions of wasteful projects running over 20 billion to their constituencies”.
Jibrin drew the ire of his fellow lawmakers when he read a speech during the plenary on July 20, 2016 alleging fraud in the budget, and afterwards revealed some documents to the media, which his colleagues considered damaging.
