Suspended lawmaker, Abdulmumin Jibrin, over the
weekend won the African Voice Leadership in Legislative Governance Awards 2016
for his commitment to legislative duties and fight against corruption in
Nigeria. The award took place at the Banqueting Venue, London on Saturday and
he was accompanied by his wife Maryam.
Speaking after receiving the award, Jibrin said
Speaking after receiving the award, Jibrin said
“Thank you African
Voice Newspaper for this award. The award is a huge morale booster because it
is coming at a very difficult and challenging period. It’s a period I had to
leave my post as Appropriation chairman of the House of Representatives, suspended
through subterranean means by Speaker Yakubu Dogara and received several
threats to my life by the highly placed public officials I accused of
corruption. My offence is disagreeing with some corrupt leaders of the House
including the Speaker over the 2016 budget fraud and insisting that the right
thing must be done, exposing individual and systemic corruption in the
House and rejecting immunity for Principal officers of the House.
Despite the difficulties I am going through, I will never be cowed
to silence. I assure you I will never retreat from this worthy line of action.
I shall remain committed to the fight against corruption in the House of
Representatives and Nigeria as a whole. I dedicate this award to millions of
Nigerians home and abroad who are suffering today because of the massive theft
of our common wealth, budget fraud and monumental corruption in the House of
Representatives which assumed an unprecedented dimension under the leadership
of Speaker Yakubu Dogara.”
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