Justice Daniel Longji of a Plateau State High Court, Jos has adjourned the trial of a former Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang, to September 12 and 13, 2019 for continuation of trial and ruling on the trial-within-trial involving Yusuf Pam, a cashier at the Office of the Secretary to the State Government, OSSG.

Jang and his co-defendant are standing trial for an alleged N6.2billion fraud, and had on arraignment on May 16, 2018 pleaded “not guilty”, necessitating full-blown trial.

At the resumed hearing on August 7, 2019, prosecuting counsel, Adebisi Adeniyi, who held brief for Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, continued with the evidence-in-chief of the 11th prosecution witness, PW11, Musa Sunday.

While being led in evidence, Sunday, whose testimony began on July 23, 2019 had mentioned that the cabinet of the OSSG and Special Services account, Exhibit P25, which was a statement of account from Zenith Bank, Jos, revealed that the amount was funded by various accounts of the state government including Plateau State Government Account, Plateau State Government Project 1 Account, PLASUBEB account domiciled in Zenith Bank.

According to him, from the statement of account, the fundings were stated clearly in the OSSG Cabinet Special Services Account, and had a credit of over N35 billion and the account was opened in 2009 while Jang was the governor.

He said: “My investigation carried out by the EFCC team handling this matter shows a massive withdrawal in 2010 by the second defendant, Pam. This withdrawal were in tranches of N10million per withdrawal.

“However in 2011, the withdrawal became more frequent, while in 2014 and 2015 it became massive, most especially on the 26 March, 2015 to 9 April, 2015.

“Pam withdrew over N3billion within these three weeks during this period the presidential and governorship elections took place.

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