EFCC Goes After APC's Jibrin Over the Award of 10 Contracts in 24 Hours

The odds seems to be against Nigerian lawmaker, Abdulmunin Jibrin who raised an alarm about the budget padding saga as the EFCC beams the searchlight on him.

Abdulmumin Jibrin

 

The operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission are reportedly probing Kano lawmaker and whistleblower, Abdulmumin Jibrin who raised an alarm about the House of Representatives padding saga involving Hon. Speaker - Yakubu Dogara and other principal members of the lower chamber.

 

This was contained in a report by Daily Trust stating that the EFCC has started probing into how the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons allegedly awarded 10 contracts to companies in one day.

According to top EFCC sources, the agency is looking at documents alleging that Abdulmumin Jubrin, padded the 2014 budget with projects domiciled within the National Commission for Refugees Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons and other agencies.

Copies of the letters of award of contracts made available to the newspaper showed that on September 26, 2014, the Refugees Commission in one day awarded all the contracts to front companies allegedly provided by Jibrin.

He was copied in each of the 10 award letters signed by one Engr. Lawal A. Rasheed on behalf of the federal commissioner of the agency.

Sources said the contracts were awarded to the benefit of Kano State without naming the locations.

Those to receive items to be supplied in each contract were not named, so was also the constituency, the source said.
 

The EFCC investigators are also trying to establish Jibrin’s relationship to the projects. They are also looking to unravel why the N418m contracts were given an execution period of just two weeks, the source added.