Jibrin vows to release additional damning report on Speaker Dogara, dismisses report on £1.3m UK account

Abdulmumin Jibrin, the ousted chairman, House Committee on Appropriations on Monday vowed to release more damning information on the Speaker of House of Representatives. Jibrin who disclosed this via a statement also denied owning £1.3 million with ING Bank UK with Essex, as contained in a trending media report.

According to the report, Jibrin allegedly owns a total of £1.558 million (approximately N825 million) was reportedly traced into the account between June 1, 2016 and June 30, 2016 but after the withdrawal of £623.44 pounds the balance in the account was put at £1.376,193.84. Jibrin, who argued that the blackmail which comes ahead of resumption of the House, was aimed at diverting the “attention from the allegations of budget fraud and corruption against Speaker Dogara.

“The plan is to create credibility problem for me as I prepare to release more revelations of corruption by Dogara that will send shock down the spines of Nigerians.” In a swift reaction to the report, Jibrin in the statement however argued that the document in circulation was “fake”, however accused
the Chief of Staff to the Speaker of paying sponsoring the blackmail. “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
Maduabum. “Hon Maduabum has recruited and paid 20 million 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.

The lawmaker who expressed dismay over the report, explained that it was “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,” the statement read.