Jailed former Governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, got a reprieve from the Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday.
This is as the court reduced his jail term from 14 to 10 years.
Dariye was sentenced to 14 years in prison on June 12 this year by Justice Adebukola Banjoko of an FCT Federal High Court sitting in Gudu over criminal breach of trust.
He was also convicted for diverting the sum of N1. 62bn ecological funds the Federal Government gave the state.
However, Friday, the Appeal Court reduced the sentence of 14 years to 10 years for criminal breach of trust while the conviction of diverting N1. 62bn was reduced from two years to one year. The sentences are to run concurrently,
The Appeal Court ruled that the lower court aired in law when it sentenced Dariye, a first-time offender, to the maximum 14 years term contained in the charge against him.
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