- Adamawa state House of Assembly has threatened to arrest the state governor's brother
- The threat came after they accused of him of not handling projects awarded to his company
- The committee in charge of rural projects warned him that being the governor's brother will not save him
Habu Umar Jibrilla, the brother to Adamawa state governor, Mohammed Jibrilla Bindow, is facing likely arrest if the threats by the Adamawa state House of Assembly are carried out.
The Assembly is calling him out over the non-implementation and shoddy implementation of rural road projects awarded to his company by the Second Rural Access Mobility Projects (RAMP2) and the Ministry of Rural Development.
Habu Jibrilla, who is the owner MURAJ Construction firm alongside Hydrosource and Resource company, and other contractors handling a World Bank and AFDB funded road projects Lot 1, 2 and 3 in the state, have been summoned and indicted in a road project scam by the state house of Assembly.
According to The Sun, the contractors were accused of conniving with the Ministry of Rural Development and RAMP to defraud the people of Adamawa.
During a committee hearing on Wednesday, November 1, they invited members of the ministry, RAMP and the contractors to explain issues surrounding the lack of implementation of the projects in the state.
Majority leader of the House, Hon. Hassan Maman Barguma said: “We will not allow the good work executed by the Adamawa state government to be brought down by the ministry of rural development.
"It seems as if the Ministry of Rural Development and RAMP have connived to defraud World Bank, AFDB and the people of Adamawa by collecting the payments for contracts and failing to implement the projects and even where the projects were implemented, they were poorly done."
He also said Habu Umar Jibrilla was collecting payments for the contracts and defaulting from implementing the project, then refusing to appear before the committee when invited.
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Hon. Barguma said: “This Assembly is the Assembly of the people of Adamawa State, so we will not allow favouritism and personal interest to stop us from doing our job.
"We will not allow RAMP to be used as a medium for stealing public funds. Habu should note that being the governor’s brother does not give him the leverage to keep extorting the state government, if he would not execute the project, other contractors would and he must appear before the house to explain himself.”
The chairman of the house committee on rural and community development, Hon. Muhammed Abubakar Maikanti, also said: “The house has resolved that the contractors in question and the governor’s brother must appear before the house to give an account of the projects they have collected or a warrant for their arrest will be issued by the state House of Assembly.
“As a house, we don’t care about relationships, whether you are from the Governor’s constituency, or his brother or a member of any cabal, you have to appear to explain yourself to the house.
“Secondly, the ministry of rural development should make the logistics arrangement for the house to embark on an oversight function by visiting the site of the projects with a private consultant to authenticate the quality of work done by the contractors."
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Meanwhile, the Nigerian Senate has issued another warning to police IG over his failure to appear before a probe committee.
The Senate also issued an ultimatum to the police boss to appear before its committee unfailingly on Tuesday, November 7.
The Senate made this known through its proceedings which were released on Twitter.
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Source: Naija.ng