Nigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has reviewed the 14-year sentence against Senator Joshua Dariye, former governor of Plateau State and reduced it to 10 years.
Justice Stephen Adah, one of the panel justices who sat over the appeal, gave the ruling on Friday.
He reduced a sentence in the counts to 10 years, and the terms with two years are reduced to one year each. The sentences are to run concurrently.
Justice Adah also dismissed Dariye’s conviction in two of the 15-counts charge against the ex-governor, who is already serving the jail term at the Kuje Prisons in Abuja.
Recall that the former Governor was in June sentenced to 14 years imprisonment by an FCT High Court over the misappropriation of N2 billion state funds as governor.