It was a mild reprieve for
jailed former Nigerian governor, Joshua Dariye of Plateau state, as a Court of
Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Friday, November 16, reduced his 14-year term of
imprisonment to 10.
Premium Times reports that
the conviction of Dariye by a high court was right, but that the former
governor should have been jailed for 10 years.
On June 12, the 14-year
prison term was slammed on Dariye, a serving senator, by the high court of the
Federal Capital Territory, Gudu, Abuja, presided by Justice Adebukola Banjoko.
He was charged for criminal
breach of trust and criminal appropriation of the state’s funds running to over
N2 billion.
Joshua Dariye, a serving
senator representing Plateau Central senatorial district and former governor of
Plateau state, was accused of embezzling N1.162 billion ecological funds
belonging to his state.
The former governor was
charged to court by the anti-graft agency, EFCC, in 2007.
Legit.ng gathered that the
trial which stalled for over eight years following Dariye’s protracted attempt
to prevent his prosecution continued after the Supreme Court ordered the
senator to proceed with his case in 2015.
On Tuesday, June 12,
Justice Adebukola Banjoko delivered the final judgment on the protracted case.
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