Former Vice president, Atiku
Abubakar, former Minister of Information and Orientation Jerry Gana and some
other key politicians on Sunday paid solidarity visits to the embattled Senator
representing Plateau North in the National Assembly, Jonah Jang, in prison.
Their visits came about five days
after Justice Daniel Longji of the Plateau State High Court in Jos ordered
Jang’s remand in the prison custody after being arraigned by Economic Financial
Crime Commission (EFCC) on a 12-count charge of alleged corruption and
misappropriation of N6.3 billion
Among those who visited Jang in
prison included Chief Chris Giwa and other prominent members of the Peoples
Democratic Party.
Others include his colleagues in
the National Assembly.
It was gathered that most of the
politicians during their visit, donated money to the prison for the welfare of
the inmates.
During the interdenominational
church service held on Sunday, Jang was said to have prayed and preached to the
congregation which had almost all the commissioners who were in his cabinet in
attendance.
He was said to have settled the
backlog of electricity bills and settled fines for over 50 inmates.
Jang, a serving senator,
allegedly embezzled special funds released to the state by the Central Bank of
Nigeria, CBN, two months to the end of his tenure as governor in 2015.
He was specifically alleged to
have pocketed N2billion released by the CBN for disbursement to small and
medium scale enterprises in the state under the Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises Development Funds, MSMEDF, just a month before the expiration of
his tenure in April 2015.
The former governor was also said
to have abused his office as the governor by collecting money to the tune of
N4.3billion from the state coffers through the cashier in the Office of the
Secretary to the State Government, Yusuf Gyang Pam.
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