News reaching ViewPointNigeria discloses that the Plateau State government yesterday Tuesday 17th February 2015 confirmed that the debt profile of the state stands at N60 billion naira and not N200 billion claimed by the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC.
Briefing journalists in Jos yesterday, Commissioner for Finance, Mr Davou Mang, disclosed that the administration of Governor Jonah David Jang, inherited a debt of over N80 billion when he took over the mantle of leadership in 2007, and that as at present, the debt has been reduced to less than N60 billion.

News reaching ViewPointNigeria discloses that the Plateau State government yesterday Tuesday 17th February 2015 confirmed that the debt profile of the state stands at N60 billion naira and not N200 billion claimed by the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC.
Briefing journalists in Jos yesterday, Commissioner for Finance, Mr Davou Mang, disclosed that the administration of Governor Jonah David Jang, inherited a debt of over N80 billion when he took over the mantle of leadership in 2007, and that as at present, the debt has been reduced to less than N60 billion.

He said that contrary to misleading information being circulated by the governorship candidate of the APC, Barrister Simon Lalong, who at one point said the debt profile was N168 billion, and then few days later changed his mind and said it was N200 billion –that efforts were being made to reduce it even further to more manageable figures.
Mang challenged Lalong and the APC to come out with any authentic and official documents to back their claim.
He cautioned the leadership of APC to campaign with facts and not to confuse innocent people of the state with conflicting figures that are not realistic.

Mang expressed optimism that Jang was making adequate effort to reduce the debt profile from the current N60 billion, adding that about N17 billion has been earmarked to pay off part of the N60 billion the state was currently owing.
“Nobody can point to the visible projects the previous government used the over N80 billion to execute. But, in the last eight years, Plateau people can feel, touch and smell the developmental projects executed by Jang’s administration,” he said.

Meanwhile, the state’s PDP governorship candidate, Gyang Pwajok, has said there is accumulated interest from the N80 billion debts inherited in 2007, adding that the present administration had paid part of the debt and that the state’s Debt Management Board will issue the authentic debt profile at the end of the present political dispensation.

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PLSG – The debt profile of Plateau State is not N200 Billion