Former Nigerian State Governor and serving Senator jailed for corruption


A former Nigerian State Governor and serving Senator has been found guilty of corruption and jailed. 

He is the second high-ranking official to be sentenced in the past two weeks.  Former governor of Plateau State Joshua Dariye was found guilty of misappropriating millions of dollars earmarked for an ecological fund by the Abuja High Court, marking the end of a case that had been running for over a decade. 

The judge sentenced Dariye to 14 years behind bars for criminal misappropriation and two years for criminal breach of trust, with the sentences running concurrently.  

Dariye, who represented the opposition People's Democratic Party before crossing the floor to serve as a senator for the ruling All Progressives Congress, was in 2007 accused of diverting over one point one billion naira from the state treasury.  


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