The former Governor of Plateau State, Mr. Jonah Jang, has been invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Our correspondent gathered that the former governor was invited based on petitions by the Plateau State Government.

Earlier, the commission had quizzed some members of the immediate past government, including a former Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Davou Mang, and some key officers of the finance ministry.


 
Senior legislative aide to Senator Jonah Jang, Mrs. Olivia Dazyam, who confirmed the invitation, said that Jang will honour the invitation on Thursday (today).

Dazyam, in a statement in Wednesday, said that the former governor was invited by the EFCC to give further explanations on some perceived grey areas over which some former appointees of the governor had been invited by the EFCC.

She said there was no evidence to back the spurious allegations by some petitioners.

She said, “Senator Jonah David Jang feels it a point of duty to inform his teeming supporters and constituents of the Plateau-North senatorial district, Plateau State, of his invitation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

“This has become necessary owing to the fact that Sen. Jang owes it a duty, having meritoriously served as the governor of Plateau State for eight years, to clear any grey areas that may need further clarification in the course of his stewardship.

“As a two-time military governor and a democratically-elected governor for two terms of four years each, Sen. Jang will not create any encumbrances in order not to appear before the EFCC to give an account of his actions while in office.”

The statement said that Jang took oath of office to defend the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and “that was what he did as a governor and has continued to do as a senator.”