Dariye, Nyame Released From Prison Four Months After Buhari’s Pardon

Four months after they were granted state pardon by the National Council of State (NCS), the former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye and the former Taraba State Governor, Jolly Nyame, were on Monday released from prison.

They were released together with 159 convicts who were also pardoned by President Muhammadu Buhari on April 14, 2022.

As at 11 am on Monday they were being documented, preparatory to their release.

While Nyame was sentenced for 12 years for diverting N1.64 billion during his tenure as governor of Taraba, Dariye was sentenced for 10 years’ imprisonment for N1.126 billion fraud.

To this effect, the pardon of the former governors drew a lot of flakes from Nigerians as they claimed that the Federal Government was encouraging corruption.

Justifying the clemency, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the president, Garba Shehu, said that it would have been insensitive for the president not to pardon the duo, saying that they had life-threatening illnesses.

Dariye, Nyame Released After Documentation – NCoS Spokesman

However, the duo of Dariye and Nyame could not be released immediately by the correctional service because, according to the Public Relations Officer of NCoS, Abubakar Umar, the Ministry of Justice would send a correspondence stating so.

Speaking to Daily Sun, the Public Relations Officer of NCoS FCT Command, Humphrey Chukwuedo confirmed that the duo of Dariye and Nyame were released and had left the correctional centre after documentation.

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