The former governor of Plateau state, Jonah Jang, has been accused of lying to the new administration of Governor Simon Lalong about the debt profile of the North Central state.
Jang, who is the current senator representing Plateau North senatorial district of the state, allegedly lied to Lalong in the details in his handover note that the state’s debt profile was in the region of N103 billion naira.
While Jang is a staunch member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lalong on the other hand, is a stalwart of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to The Nation, the allegation was leveled against Jang by a transition committee that submitted its formal reports to Lalong. They stated in their report that the former governor lied in his handover note.
According to the report by the committee headed by the deputy governor, Professor Sunni Tyoden: “The state of indebtedness of the state as at May 29, 2015 amounts to N222.3 billion.”
The report reads in part: “The hand over notes received from the proceeding government claimed the level of of indebtedness of the government was N103.9 billion as of May, 2015. Our findings put the figure at N222.3 billion.
“What was left as credit in all the government accounts put together, was N93 million.
While the outgone government claimed to have spent N8.6 billion on the new government house at Little Rayfield, our findings put the figure at N16.4 billion and work is still ongoing.”
Two weeks back, Governor Lalong gave all government officials accused of misuse of public funds in the Jang administration a two-week deadline to either return the money or face prosecution.
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