By Ukandi Odey
Senator representing Plateau North Senatorial zone in the National Assembly, GNS Pwajok, has dismissed as “baseless and unimaginable” the claim by some members of the opposition in the state that N50 billion
SURE-P funds accrued to the state and had been misappropriated by the state government.
Reacting to a faceless and unclaimed petition to the House of Assembly during an interaction with journalists, Pwajok said apart from other technical inadequacies of the said petition, the N50 billion claim was laughable “because what accrues to Plateau monthly since the establishment of SURE-P cannot even add up to N5 billion.”
Pwajok described the development as “unfortunate,” noting that the House should have been concerned with the weaknesses of the petition and set it aside accordingly instead of allowing itself to be diverted by such phantom issues.
He noted that the political opposition in the state had since succumbed to a pastime in which pettiness forms the thrust of their attacks on the government, saying that it was in such desperate fit of hatred and ill feelings that the same opposition described one of the critical overhead bridges built by the Jang administration as “a bridge across gutter.”