When the senator representing Plateau Central
Senatorial district, Joshua Dariye few weeks ago
defected to the APC from the PDP many have
accused him of doing so to end his lingering
corruption trial.
However, Versatile Reporters has confirmed that
this may be far from the truth as the travails of the
former Plateau state governor is far from been
over.
Dariye's corruption trial continued on Wednesday,
October 12 before Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the
Federal Capital
Territory High Court, Gudu, Abuja, with a defence
witness, Stephen Igmala, who is the acting General
Manager, Plateau State
Road Maintenance Agency, denying knowledge of
how equipment used by the Agency were procured.
Mr. Igmala, who was examined by the defence
counsel, G. S. Paul, said: ‘‘I started working in the
Agency as a Principal Technical Officer in May
2000. I have no
idea about how, and when the equipment were
procured. We received them from the Ministry of
Works in 2000, and are still
using them till date. We didn’t pay for the
equipment; the state government did.’’
When cross-examined by the counsel to EFCC,
Rotimi Jacobs, Mr. Igmala, told the court that he
became the Agency’s acting general manager in
June 2015, said he was not a member of the
management of the agency, previously known as
Plateau State Direct Labour Agency, when the
equipment and vehicles listed in the Exhibit D 18
that was tendered and admitted by the court were
procured.
Justice Banjoko, thereafter, adjourned to
October 13 for further hearing.
Mr. Dariye is being prosecuted by the EFCC for
allegedly siphoning the state’s ecological fund to
the tune of N1.16 billion.

Culled From: www.versatilereporters.com/2016/10/even-in-apc-sen-joshua-dariyes.html?m=1

The same trial that Timipriye sylva received.

PDP Did the same when he was in PDP, so why is APC Trying to take credit ?