Former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Joshua
Dariye, All Progressives Congress, APC, Plateau Central who is presently
serving a ten-year jail term in the prison is co-sponsoring a motion in
the Senate. Presenting a motion entitled, ” Senseless killing of a
Briton and the abduction of three others in a Holiday Resort in Kaduna
State by Armed Bandits” by Senator Shehu Sani, PRP, Kaduna Central
Thursday, Dariye’s name was listed as one of the co-sponsors. Shehu Sani
and one hundred and eight Senators co-sponsored the motion which is at
the moment being debated on by the Senators.
Senator Dariye who
was sentenced by the court for 14 years and still in the prison appeared
as number 89 as a co-sponsor. It would be recalled that during his
arraignment at the FCT High Court Gudu, in Abuja on Tuesday, 12th, June
2018, the Court sentenced him to 14-years imprisonment for fraud and
misappropriation of funds.
But the Court of Appeal in Abuja
later reduced the jail term of Dariye to 10 years, just as the appeal
court had said that while the conviction was right, the former governor
should have been jailed for 10 years. The court reduced the sentence of
14 years to 10 years for criminal breach of trust while a similar
conviction for diversion of N1. 62 billion ecological funds were reduced
from two years to one year. The sentences are to run concurrently, as
the previous judgment in June, meaning Mr. Dariye has now been
effectively jailed 10 years.