Sacked House of Representatives Appropriations Committee chairman Abdulmumin Jibrin said the lawmaker frustrated his efforts to prevent the padding of Budget 2016.

The lawmakers said Hon Jibrin was sacked for allegedly padding the budget,but denied the allegation.

Jibrin, who accused Dogara, Lasun, Doguwa and Ogor of being behind the padding, alleged that  10 chairmen inserted 2,000 fictitious projects worth N248 billion into the budget.

Hon Chris Uzubago accused Hon Jubrin of allocating 20 projects worth N4.3billion to his constituency.

Dogara and the other principal officers have protested their innocence, saying Jibrin’s allegations were “mere afterthoughts manufactured simply because the House relieved him of his position as the chairman of the Appropriation bill.

Jibrin told Channels Television last night: “There is institutional corruption at the National Assembly, which we have to address.

“The case of the National Assembly today is that there is a massive corruption going on in the house and i want  reform in the National Assembly.

Not only reform in the budget of the National Assembly because people are looking at it from a narrow perspective. This issue is going to lead to a revolution in the National Assembly; a lot of corruption is at National Assembly. I want to use the word trigger.
“I have been part of the institution for five years, I have not been part of any corruption.

There were lots of insertions in the 2016 budget from the angle of the National Assembly.

“I discussed with the speaker that the insertions were too many. Though we (the legislature) have the power to insert but it was senseless in view of the enormity of the insertions. I fought internally to ensure that the situation was checked. The insertions were passed.

“We did a statistics after collecting reports from the various committees. I discovered that in between the committees in the House, about 2000 projects were posted by the committees totaling about N224 billion and I was a bit worried about it.