News reaching ViewPointNigeria suggests that Gov. Jonah Jang and his cabinet will move into the newly built Plateau Government House on Friday, Sept. 5. This information was made public by the State’s Commissioner for Information, Mrs Olivia Dazyam has said at a briefing after the State Executive Meeting in Jos earlier this week.

Dazyem said the memorandum for the relocation to the news structure was presented by the Secretary to the State Government and subsequently approved by council. The commissioner averred that it was the first time the Plateau state Government was building a government house -suggesting that the one currently inhabited by Governor in Rayfield was originally built as a Presidential Lodge and not meant to be the Government House.

News reaching ViewPointNigeria suggests that Gov. Jonah Jang and his cabinet will move into the newly built Plateau Government House on Friday, Sept. 5. This information was made public by the State’s Commissioner for Information, Mrs Olivia Dazyam has said at a briefing after the State Executive Meeting in Jos earlier this week.

Dazyem said the memorandum for the relocation to the news structure was presented by the Secretary to the State Government and subsequently approved by council. The commissioner averred that it was the first time the Plateau state Government was building a government house -suggesting that the one currently inhabited by Governor in Rayfield was originally built as a Presidential Lodge and not meant to be the Government House.

She said, “You will recall that the council, at its meeting of Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, approved the construction of new government house in Rayfield, Jos, at the initial cost of N4.4 billion. However, “Due to additional works and expansions, the contract was reviewed upward to N9.7 billion”.

She went on further to say that finishing touches were currently on going in the complex to make it ready for occupation.

In a separate development, Dazyam said the council also approved the relocation of the palace of the Gbong Gwom Jos, Chairman of the Plateau Traditional Council, to the current Governor’s Office and Lodge at Jishe, around Hill Station. 

Political analysts in Jos view the relocation of the palace from the area around the former Jos North Secretariat (near Masalacin Jumma’a) as necessary, because of the repeated threats to attack the palace. 

It remains unclear what the current Gbong Gwon Jos Palace would be used for, but several feelers have confirmed to ViewPointNigeria that the plan is to turn it into a museum.

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Gbong Gwom Jos palace to be relocated to Jishe Governor’s Lodge, as Jang moves into New Government House