Alex Enumah in Abuja
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the conviction of former Plateau State governor, Senator Joshua Dariye on criminal breach of trust and his subsequent sentencing to 14 years imprisonment, although the jail term was reduced from 14 to 10 years by the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal.
However, the apex court in the same judgment quashed the criminal misappropriation of funds charge in which Dariye was sentenced to two years imprisonment.
The apex court five-man panel while delivering judgment in the appeal filed by the former governor against his conviction and sentencing by both a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the Court of Appeal, Abuja, the Supreme Court held that both the lower and trial courts were right in their findings on the criminal breach of trust filed against the ex-governor under Section 3115 of the Penal Code.
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The Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeal that convicted former Plateau sState governor, Senator Joshua Dariye, for criminal breach of trust brought against him by the Federal Government.
The apex court also upheld the 10-year jail term imposed on him by the Court of Appeal along with the conviction but however quashed the criminal misappropriation of funds against the former governor which earned the him one year jail term at the Court of Appeal.
Delivering judgment in an appeal filed by the former governor, Justice Hellen Ogunwumiju held that the Court of Appeal and a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory were right in their findings in the criminal breach of trust filed against the former governor under Section 315 of the Penal Code.
Supreme Court has affirmed the ten-year jail term slammed on a former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye’s for alleged criminal breach of trust.
In a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Helen Ogunwumiju on behalf of the five-man panel of the court, led by Justice Mary Odili, the court held that the Appeal Court was right in affirming the earlier verdict of the Court of Appeal which upheld the sentence passed on Senator DARIYE by Justice Adebukola Banjoko of an Abuja High Court.
The court however quashed the second charge of criminal misappropriation of funds preferred against the former Governor.
JUST IN: Supreme Court Affirms Ex-Plateau Governor, Joshua Dariye’s 10-year Jail Term
The court held that since Dariye is a first-time offender, the 14-year jail term was excessive. Dariye was governor between 1999 and 2007.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Mar 12, 2021
A five-man panel of the Supreme Court has affirmed the ten-year jail term sentence slammed on a former governor of Plateau state, Senator Joshua Dariye, who is serving the jail term for criminal breach of trust.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had charged Dariye to court in 2007, accusing him of diverting N1.126 billion from Plateau government’s ecological fund.
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