National Assembly officials have sealed of the office of the former chairman of house appropriation committee, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Thursday, September 29, 2016.
Jibrin who was suspended from the house of representation on Wednesday for one year for alleging that the speaker, Yakubu Dogara, four other principal officers and other lawmakers, padded the 2015 budget, has been barred from positions of responsibility until the end of the 8th assembly.
According to The Cable, the former chairman of house committee’s office has also been sealed until his suspension is over.
According to Vanguard who spoke to the spokesman of the House, Abdulrazaq Namdas (APC, Adamawa) said, very briefly, “The management did the right thing.”
There is no haste there because if a judge finds you guilty you are not given the luxury of time to do otherwise”.
On whether the action by the House would not amount to contempt of court, Namdas said “it is not because of the action of the House Jibrin went to court, the action of the House is laced around the collective breach of our privileges by Jibrin”.
“He (Jibrin) did not go to court because of the action of our committee but what the committee did was to suspend him for his action against our collective privileges,” Namdas continued.
“And let me quickly remind you that Jibrin has not formally submitted any petition against anybody to the House till date.
“What he did is to go outside NASS to submit petitions and mind you his petition is built around the quartet of the Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Whip and the Minority Leader.
“His case has no relationship with the entire House but in the case of his suspension, he was suspended for violating our collective privileges as enunciated in our House Rules,” he concluded.
