The Transition Committee set up by Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau says the immediate past administration of former Governor David Jang left a debt of N222.3 billion for the Lalong administration.

Sonni Tyoden, the Plateau Deputy Governor and Chairman of the Committee, made this known on Tuesday when he submitted the report of the committee to the governor.

Mr. Tyoden explained that the committee was made up of 12 members of the central committee, 188 other members were broken into 27 sub-committees, each handling a particular aspect of government operations.

The deputy governor said that government records showed that between May 2007 and May 2015, the state received a total income of N525.35 billion.

“The sum of N747.65 billion was said to have been expended on Plateau citizens in the last eight years.

“The hand-over notes received from the previous government stated that the level of indebtedness of government was N103.9 billion as at May 2015 but our findings put the figure at N222.3 billion.

“Furthermore, what was left as credit in all the government accounts put together was N93 million,’’ he said.

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