The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it has traced properties worth N500m to the former Governor Plateau State, Jonah Jang.
The properties, according to a statement signed by the EFCC acting spokesman, Mr. Tony Orilade, are located at No. 8 and 9 Gobarau Road, Unguwan Rimi GRA, Kaduna State.
The statement obtained by the Next Edition, also accused the former governor, who is a senator representing Plateau-North Senatorial District of abusing his office while serving as governor.
It said: “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 charges revealed that the former governor 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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According to the EFCC, investigations so far have revealed that the properties in question were purchased from New Capital Properties Limited, a subsidiary of Northern Nigerian Development Company, Kaduna.
Sen. Jang is already facing trial before a Plateau State High Court for alleged embezzlement of some special funds released to the state by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
