Accuses him of doling out stipends
Yesterday was not the best of days for a House of Representatives member, Ibrahim Babangida (Malumfashi/Kafur). He escaped death by the whiskers when he was attacked by a mob in his constituency in Katsina State.
Babangida was in the Kafur Local Government Area to attend an event hosted by former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Bello Masari who was giving out one of his daughters in marriage. Saturday Mirror learnt that the lawmaker had decided to visit his constituency in a big way and prior to the wedding ceremony, had sent an undisclosed amount of money to be shared to people including youths in the area.
It was gathered that he had not visited his constituency since becoming a lawmaker, a situation that prompted him to dole out the money for sharing as a way of appeasing some of the youths who were said to be angry with him for failing to come visit them all this while. A source who did not want his name mentioned told our correspondent that "the sum of N1, 000 was given to each of the youths" but several of them "were not able to get any as the money could not go round."
According to the source, "Some youths who had attended the wedding event, on sighting him, began shouting at him and accusing him of neglecting them and giving them pittance when he was supposed to have done more." "It took the intervention of the police to wrest him out of the hold of the mob and he was later rushed out of the place. The police had to fire some shots into the air to disperse the angry youths. He was then taken to the police station in Malumfashi and was kept hidden there for several hours," he said.
National Mirror