Bwacha made the promise in Zing town at his governorship campaign Wednesday.
Browsing: Jolly Nyame
The Presidency’s position was contained in a statement on Wednesday by presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu.
CISLAC described the decision as a big setback for the country’s fight against corruption in a statement on Sunday.
Nyame, 66, was governor of Taraba from 1999 to 2007. He was serving a 12-year jail term for financial malfeasance and abuse of office until Thursday when the National Council of State met and granted him and other ex-convicts state pardon.
Dariye and Nyame, former governors of Plateau and Taraba, respectively, were serving terms at the Kuje Correctional Centre, FCT, over financial malfeasance while in office between 1999 and 2007.
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the 12-year jail term imposed on former Taraba State Governor, Jolly Nyame, over N1.6 billion corruption charge.
The Attorney General of Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has revealed that 22 former governors are currently under investigation for corruption.
The other claimants in the suit were Uba Ahmadu, Abubakar Armayau and Bilkisu Danboyi.
All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, promised to open up Taraba for investors to tap into its enormous natural resources to enhance the development of the state.
Delivering judgment, Justice Emmanuel Agib, reduced the 14 years conviction passed on Nyame to ten.
Spokesman of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren, made the disclosure in a statement in Abuja on Monday.
The convict is seeking his release from prison on health grounds pending the determination of an appeal against his conviction.
Executive Director of the organisation, Samson Itodo, stated this in a statement in Abuja.
Spokesman of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren, said this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday.
A former Governor of Taraba State, Jolly Nyame, was last week sentenced to 28 years imprisonment on a two-count charge in a case of corruption brought against him by the EFCC
Call it the serendipity of stumbling across a goldmine and you will not be far from the truth. Nyame was in fact, never in the purview of the EFCC, and no one at any time wrote a petition against him
Nyame was found guilty and convicted on 25 of the 41-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust, misappropriation and graft, not guilty on 14 others and discharged on two counts.
The EFCC charged Nyame with criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of government funds on June 22, 2010.
Nyame was docked by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on a 21-count charge, bordering on misappropriation of Taraba funds to the tune of N1.64 billion, while in office.
Nyame is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in a 21-count charge of misappropriating Taraba State funds to the tune of N1.64 billion while in office.