Jang Promises Detailed Handover Notes

GOVERNOR of Plateau State, Jonah David Jang has promised to do a comprehensive handover of government property and inventory details for the incoming administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Reacting to allegations of looting of government property and other
 anomalies made by the state chairman of the APC, Chief Latep Dabang, the state Commissioner for Information and Communication, Muhammad Abubakar Badu, in a statement yesterday said “the governor has already directed all ministries, parastatals, departments, and agencies of government to submit their hand over notes latest this week.”

Abubakar said that “it is in furtherance of this that government set up a transition committee headed by the secretary to the state government, Professor Shedrack Best, to ensure proper handing over to the next administration.”

The commissioner, however, called on all to remember and acknowledge that “government is a continuous process, and that the day-to-day running of the Redemption administration will continue until its termination on May 29, 2015.”

Earlier, the Governor-elect, Simon Bako Lalong, said his attention has been drawn to ongoing developments in the state particularly worrisome reports bordering on the concluded plans to hurriedly sell off government properties particularly the Plateau Supply Company Ware House and Mini Housing Estate along Dogon Dutse Road, PIPC Duplexes in Gwarimpa, Abuja and other locations, the looting and carting away of government properties including vehicles, household furniture and other items, including the illegal engagement of accounting and auditing firms to balance the books of accounts of agencies of government used for the funding of elections of government sponsored candidates by the outgoing administration.

A press statement by the Director of Media, Publicity and Protocol Affairs, Festus V. Faunter, said these actions are being perpetrated in bad faith, considering that the government has barely less than one month to wind up.

In his reaction, the Executive Assistant to the governor, Mr. Clinton Garba, said that all the allegations are baseless, wondering that Jang did not loot the treasury in the past eight years, “is it now that he will loot the treasury when he is on the verge of leaving the office.