22nd October, 2013
The Plateau State Government on Tuesday constituted a committee for the burial of its first civilian governor, Chief Solomon Lar.
Lar died at a U.S. hospital on Wednesday, 9 October, 2013.
A statement signed by Mr James Mannok, the Director of Press Affairs, named former information minister, Jerry Gana, as the Chairman of the committee, while Mr I. D. Gyang is the secretary.
Membership of the committee is drawn from Plateau and Nasarawa states, Lar’s family, the Presidency, as well as the office of the Senate President.
Also to be represented on the committee is the office of the Speaker, House of Representatives, the national headquarters of the PDP, as well as associates of the late elder statesman.
The statement said that the committee had been mandated to immediately commence preparations toward the event.