The law took its full course Tuesday as another governor was jailed for 14 years over fraud related issue.
Recall last week, Jolly Nyame, former governor of Taraba State, was jailed 14 years for filtering away the state’s money for personal use.
In another judgment, Tuesday, the same judge, Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the FCT Federal High Court, who sent Nyame to prison, had also jailed another senator and former Plateau State governor, Joshua Dariye.
The court ordered that he spends the next 14 years in jail. He was found guilty of diverting N1.162 billion state ecological funds while he was governor between 1999 and 2007.
He was first arraigned on a 23-count charge for the offence in 2007.
The court sentenced Dariye to two years in prison for criminal breach of trust and 14 years for criminal misappropriation of funds.
The sentences are to run concurrently. The court gave no option of fine. Before the sentence Dariye had begged for mercy.
