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Browsing: Joshua Dariye
Recall that Dariye was one of the high profile prisoners pardoned by the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government.
He stated this when he led a delegation from the state, including his wife, Regina, to visit Dariye at his residence in Abuja.
The Presidency’s position was contained in a statement on Wednesday by presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu.
It is perhaps for this reason that Justice John Marshall in US v. Wilson (1833) describes a state pardon “as an act of grace”.
CISLAC described the decision as a big setback for the country’s fight against corruption in a statement on Sunday.
Wike, who stated this in Minna, on Saturday, when he visited delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party ahead of the party’s presidential primaries, said the Buhari regime’s anti-corruption war was selective.
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 Force Public Relations Officer, Commissioner of Police Frank Mba, paraded the suspects on Wednesday in Abuja.
The youths said this in Abuja on Tuesday in a statement.
The 10-year imprisonment was for the offence of criminal breach of trust.
Dariye filed the suit praying the Supreme Court to upturn the November 16, 2018 judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, which convicted him and sentenced him to 10 years for diverting public funds estimated at N1.162 billion, while he was the Governor of Plateau State
Pin-drop silence. Strange things do happen in Nigeria. But it had never been seen like that. For a father of the country to publicly excoriate a religious leader? For a Matthew to call a preacher an idiot, “a total idiot?” It was sacrilege walking on two legs.
The Attorney General of Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has revealed that 22 former governors are currently under investigation for corruption.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has insisted that the Senate President. Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, must stop the payment of salaries and allowances to convicted Senator Joshua Dariye.
The Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has justified the payment of salaries and allowances to convicted Plateau Central senator, Joshua Dariye.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court in Lagos to “stop the Senate President Bukola Saraki from paying former Plateau State governor, Senator Joshua Dariye N14.2 million monthly allowances while he serves out a 10-year prison sentence for corruption because such payment violates Nigerian law and international obligations.”
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday commuted the sentence of 14 years’ imprisonment passed on a former Governor of Plateau, Joshua Dariye, to 10 years.
Delivering judgment, Justice Emmanuel Agib, reduced the 14 years conviction passed on Nyame to ten.
This was revealed by Yakubu Chocho, the State Organising Secretary of the party.