Following the expiration of two weeks ultimatum given by the Plateau State governor, Mr Simon Bako Lalong,  to those who looted the state  treasury to return the money, the  governor said the list of those behind the financial misdemeanors in the previous administration have been  forwarded to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for investigation.

Speaking with newsmen in Jos, the Plateau State  governor, Lalong, who was worried by the delay of the EFCC to do justice to the petitions forwarded to the commission, said if nothing happened within the  shortest possible time, he would remind the EFCC, adding that Plateau State needed the looted money to develop the state.

“We have written to the EFCC and asked them to investigate, the delay now is from the EFCC, I am going to remind them. The commission had the gut to arrest some of us some years back, when there was no evidence, now that there are evidences why should they delay in arresting people,” he queried.

The governor, who said he disagreed with the former president that there was a difference between stealing and corruption, said what his administration discovered when it took over was a case of stealing by the previous administration, adding that two months’ allocation belonging to the local government were diverted.

On insecurity in some parts of the state, the governor said his administration was not relenting in its efforts to bring lasting peace to the troubled Riyom and Barakin Ladi local government areas of the state, adding that the government had constituted a peace committee to find lasting solution.

-Nigerian Tribune