Abdulmumin Jibrin denies owning £1.3m in a UK based bank

Sacked Chairman of the House of Representatives committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has denied allegations that he operates an account with ING bank in the UK and has a balance of £1.3m in the account.

The allegation was leveled against him by the National Youth Council of Nigeria who in a statement by its Head of the Anti-corruption unit, Ifeanyi Okonkwo, said it has traced £1.558m which is about N825m, to an ING Bank in Essex, United Kingdom that is allegedly being operated Jibrin.

The lawmaker who is currently in a running battle with the speaker of the House of Repreentatives, Yakubu Dogara and 13 others over allegations of budget padding, denied the allegations and has threatened to take legal action.

This post first appeared on Linda Ikeji's Blog. Read the original story here.