Dogara Sacks House Of Reps Appropriation Chairman Over Budget Padding

The Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has removed the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriation, Mr. Abdulmumin Jibrin. He was replaced with the House Chairman on Housing, Mustapha Bala Dawaki also from Kano State and member of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

It should be recalled that Jibrin, an APC member from Kano State, hard serious disagreements with his colleagues over the handling of the controversial 2016 budget when he was accused of putting many constituency projects worth over N4 billion in the 2016 budget.There was an agitation to remove him then.