Alleged N6.3bn fraud: EFCC to appeal Jang, Pam’s acquittal
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Bawa, EFCC chairman
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has vowed to appeal a court judgement discharging and acquitting a former Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang and a former cashier in the Office of the Secretary to the State Government, OSSG, Yusuf Pam, of alleged N6.3 billion frauds.
Recall that on Friday, the Plateau State High Court sitting in Jos, had discharged and acquitted Messrs Jang and Pam of the EFCC’s seventeen-count charges bordering on criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of Plateau State funds to the tune of N6.3 billion.
Reacting to the development, the EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement on Friday, said the Commission had initiated processes for an appeal immediately.
He said: “The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to the Friday, September 2, 2022 judgment of Justice C.L Dabup of the Plateau State High Court sitting in Jos, discharging and acquitting a former governor of Plateau State, Senator Jonah David Jang and a former cashier in the Office of the Secretary to the State Government, OSSG, Yusuf Pam, of the EFCC’s seventeen-count charges bordering on criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of Plateau State funds to the tune of N6.3 billion.
“The Commission has initiated processes for an Appeal immediately.”
