The former lawmaker, who is currently the acting District Head of Manguana in Boggos Local Government Area of the state, testified as the ninth defence witness in the ongoing trial of a former Plateau State Governor, Joshua Dariye
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The ruling, according to Joshua, deals with the ecological funds, which is the crux of the case, but it couldn’t be tendered because the Registrar of the Kaduna State High Court was unavailable to provide a copy
The subpoena, marked as exhibit D19, aside coming to testify had requested for documents from the ministry on the case
The Chairman of the PDP in the state, Chief Damishi Sango, stated this while addressing newsmen on Friday in Jos.
Dariye, in a letter to the Senate, read by the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, at plenary a few weeks ago, announced his defection to the APC
But in 2014, the former governor returned to the PDP and had explained that his decision to rejoin the party was because he was a founding member.
He assured of his “loyalty’’ to the PDP at all times
Dariye, in addition to being accused of siphoning about N1.2 billion Ecological Fund meant for the state, is also alleged to have diverted about N204 million meant for the state treasury to Ebenezer Ratnen Ventures, a company owned by him
He was kidnapped on the Saturday night at the family house in Mushere, Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State
“We have just confirmed that the kidnappers dropped a letter in which they asked for N10 million dollars,” Major General Dave Enetie, the Commander of the Special Task Force maintaining security in Plateau, told the News Agency of NIGERIA in Jos on Sunday
The gunmen, numbering about nine, were said to have stormed Pa Deswan Dariye’s home in Meshere, Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State
He said the youth should not bother much about the intrigues of politics, adding: “The joy of politics has to do with exclusion and inclusion, which make democracy beautiful
Senator Dariye, who served PDP for eight years as the governor of Plateau State, decamped to the Labour Party owing to a face-off with the leadership of the PDP
The returnees, who were received in style by Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State, spoke through Pam Gyang, Tallen’s running mate in the 2011 governorship election, while in Labour Party
He added: “He has done excellently well and to ensure that he wins the 2015 presidential election, Plateau State under my watch, will ensure that he gets two million votes in the presidential election next year
Botmang was the deputy to Governor Joshua Dariye from 1999 to 2007