Budget Padding: EFCC Goes After Dogara

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has commenced covert investigation into allegations of budget padding leveled against Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the House of Representatives. 
According to TheCable, the anti-graft agency is inviting finance directors of federal ministries and agencies to come forward with details of their draft budgets and what was finally approved by the National Assembly.
They are billed to make their appearances on different days of the week. Honourable Abdulmumin Jibrin, who was axed as Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in July, had alleged that Dogara alongside his Deputy, Yusuf Lasun, Chief Whip, Alhassan Doguwa and Minority Leader, Leo Ogor, made illegal insertions totaling some 450 billion Naira into the 2016 budget.

An APC committee invited Jibrin over to appear before it in August; in what was an attempt to gag the Kano born lawmaker.

However, Jibrin was back hurling allegations at Dogara soon after the Speaker said budget padding wasn’t corruption.

Dogara had made the comments after emerging from a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the villa.