On Friday, a Plateau State High Court in Jos discharged and acquitted Jonah Jang, a former governor of the state, of the N6.3 billion corruption charges levelled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Yusuf Pam, a former cashier in the office of the Secretary to the Plateau state government, was also discharged and acquitted by the court presided over by Justice Christy Dabup.
Jang had in March 2021 appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to pardon another ex-Governor of Plateau, Joshua Dariye; a former Taraba State Governor, Jolly Nyame.
The Council of State led by the President subsequently in April 2022 approved the pardon of 159 convicts including Dariye and Nyame.
Before their release, Dariye was serving 10 years’ imprisonment for N1.126bn fraud whilst Nyame was serving a 12-year jail sentence for diverting N1.64bn when he was governor of Taraba.
