The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has traced properties
worth N500, 000,000 (Five Hundred Million Naira) only to former Plateau
State governor, Jonah Jang. The properties are located at No. 8 and 9
Gobarau Road Unguwan Rimi GRA Kaduna State.
Preliminary
investigations revealed that the said properties were purchased from
New Capital Properties Limited, a subsidiary of Northern Nigerian
Development Company, NNDC, Kaduna.
It would be recalled that the
EFCC on May 7, 2018 filed 12 count charges against the immediate past
governor for an alleged fraud of about N6.3bn (Six Billion Three Hundred
Million Naira).
A serving Senator representing Plateau-North
Senatorial District, Jang who is being prosecuted before a Plateau State
High Court, allegedly embezzled some special funds released to the
state by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
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The
former governor is also said to have abused his office as the governor
by collecting money to the tune of N4.3bn from the state coffers through
the cashier of the Office of the Secretary to the State Government,
Yusuf Pam.
One
of the count charge revealed that the former governor was allegedly
diverted N2bn released by the CBN for disbursement to Small and Medium
Enterprises in the state under the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Development Funds, just a month before the expiration of his tenure in
April 2015.
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