House Of Rep Resolution: "Those Involved In Budget Padding To Step Down".

Dogara And Jibrin

 In attempt to sanitize the House of Representative and to build confidence in the site of the entire Nigerian, the Lawmakers has issued a step down notice to all the members allegedly involved in the budget padding as reviled by Hon.Jibrin.

The house that is not free from corruption is in a tight corner this time of change and fight against corrupt practices in Nigeria and among the lawmakers.

Dogara and three others has been directly accused by Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin for padding 2016 budget in the turn of  over N400 Billion which is not allocated to any project.The matter is been investigated by the anti-corrupt agencies in Nigeria after Jibrin submitted all the documents as evidence to his claims.

The Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara as well as other principal officers of the House implicated in the budget padding scandal in the House have been advised to step down for proper investigation into the matter.

Reacting to the issue, a lawmaker in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Moshood Oshun, who said that he could not reach any conclusion on the matter until the whole thing is made clearer, added that the matter should be handled with caution.

“If we are saying that the Speaker should step down, other people that were accused with him should step down. I am not a member of the Federal House of Representatives, but if he steps down, what happens after that, will he be allowed to go back to the seat if he is innocent.

“Many people were complaining, when President Muhammadu Buhari delayed in signing the 2016 budget, but if what is happening now is substantiated, that means he was right,” he said.

Oshun stressed that one of the primary functions of the legislature is to approve budget by looking at the economy of the country and the available fund, adding that the legislators  need to know what the people want.