Jibrin asks anti-graft agencies to probe massive money laundering in House of Reps.
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Kano lawmaker, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Saturday called on anti-corruption agencies in the country to probe widespread acts of money laundering in the House of Representatives, saying the pattern has become entrenched in the lower chamber.
Mr. Jibrin said there was no better time for the authorities to revive pending money laundering cases than now.
“The money laundering issue has become a pattern over the years in the House,” Mr. Jibrin said in an email to PREMIUM TIMES. “It is time for the anticorruption agencies to move in decisively!”
PREMIUM TIMES had in December 2015 reported that between 2009 and 2015, the management arm of the federal legislature led by the Clerk, Salisu Maikasuwa, his predecessor, Yemi Ogunyomi, and their representatives, extensively violated the Money Laundering Act (2004, 2011) in banking transactions leading to the withdrawals of about N42 billion of public funds.
PREMIUM TIMES redistributed the report on Twitter and Facebook on Saturday.
The investigative report said members of the lawmaking arms of the legislature – Senate and the House of Representatives – were also involved in the violation of an Act they laboured for months to enact.
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