By Emman Ovuakporie & Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA—OUSTED Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmunin Jibrin, has denied owning a United Kingdom account as widely reported in the media on Monday.

Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin

Apparently disturbed by this development, Jibrin in a statement, denied ever owning a foreign account, describing the document in circulation as fake.
He also denied ever having any link in the address quoted in the bank statement.

Jibrin said: “My attention has been drawn to a widely circulated report in the media that I own an account with ING Bank, UK, with Essex address and a balance of £1.3m.

“The document is fake, I do not own such account or balance neither do I have anything whatsoever 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, CID Maduabum.

‘’Maduabum has recruited and paid N20 million to one Ifeanyi Okonkwo and Ikenga Ugochinyere of a shadow youth organisation to do the hatchet job.

“You will recall that the same group went to town with the allegations of N17 billion and N418 million, which all turned out a fluke.

“Ahead of resumption of the House, they are back at work to divert attention from the allegations of budget fraud and corruption against Dogara.

“The plan is to create credibility problem for me as I prepare to release more revelations of corruption by Dogara that will send shocks down the spines of Nigerians.

“It is curious that all the allegations against me are made by faceless or shadowy organizations, while no member of House has signed any allegation against me.

“I’m, therefore, calling on the relevant authorities to investigate and take decisive action on this latest assault on my person and unveil the real sponsors.

Reacting to Jibrin’s allegation that the speaker, Yakubu Dogara, gave N20 million gratification to those who accused him of operating a foreign account, Deputy Chief of Staff to the speaker, CID Maduabum, denied giving bribe to chairman of National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, Ikenga Ugochinyere.

Maduabum said in a statement issued yesterday: “I formally deny this new allegation and denounce it as the hallucination of a deranged psychopath, a drowning man who is clutching at all straws to rescue himself from the deep hole he is in.”

“This has shown once again that corruption and lies are an essential part of Jibrin’s DNA. He obviously thinks that everybody must be bribed to act patriotically to expose his corruption and nefarious activities.”

“I feel sorry for the media that unwittingly play into his hands by publishing his continuously  false and  libelous vituperations.

“Jibrin is so unintelligent that he has not seen that his pattern is an open one. Once you say anything against him, he immediately manufactures some imaginary bribe being given to the person by persons he picks at a whim.

“I have chosen to respond once again not because Hon Jibrin is worthy of a reply but just to set the records straight.’’