₦airaland Forum

higherpower:
Few weeks after a former Taraba governor, Jolly Nyame, was jailed 14 years for fraud, the Federal Capital Territory High Court has found former Plateau State governor, Joshua Dariye, guilty of fraud.


Mr Dariye was charged for allegedly diverting N1. 161.9 billion while he served as governor of the North-central state.

He was brought to court on a 23-count charge for the alleged offence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC in 2007.

Although Mr Dariye’s lawyer, Kanu Agabi, questioned the authenticity of evidence adduced in court against his client, the court said the evidences clearly indicate a case of diversion.

The judge, Adebukola Banjoko, found him guilty of diverting funds to the Peoples Democratic Party in the state among other groups.


Mrs Banjoko who was still reading the judgement at the time of this report found Mr Dariye guilty of counts 1, 2, 4, and 7.

The counts relate to the diversion of N80 million to the PDP, N100 million to a company, Marine flow and other sums through the All State Bank.

The same judge jailed Mr Nyame.

BACKGROUND
Mr Dariye, a serving senator, was first elected governor of the state in 1999 under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.


He was re-elected in 2003, but later impeached by the state’s house of assembly in November 2006.

Following judgements of the Appeal and Supreme Courts nullifying his impeachment however, Mr Dariye was ordered to complete his tenure in 2007.

The prosecution, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, arraigned the defendant on a 21-count for the alleged offence shortly after the expiration of his tenure in May 2007.


According to the anti-graft agency, Mr Dariye used his office to siphon money out of the country, through various accounts.

Mr Dariye fought a seemingly endless battle to prevent his trial, from the lower court to the Supreme Court.

Ahead of his arraignment in 2007, Mr Dariye challenged the competence of the charges against him, but failed at the trial court.

Subsequently the ex-governor approached the Court of Appeal where he also failed in his attempt to stop the trial.

Mr Dariye who had secured an order for the suspension of his trial at the lower court, also proceeded to the Supreme Court with his appeal. He was, however, made to continue the trial following an order of the apex court in 2015, after stalling the case for over seven years.

The former governor controversially employed the services of a former Attorney General of the federation, Kanu Agabi, who headed Nigeria’s justice ministry when the charge against the defendant was first brought.

He is currently a senator on the platform of Nigeria’s ruling party, APC, to which he decamped in 2016. He was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.

The judge, Olasumbo Banjoko, slated Tuesday for judgement after entertaining the final address of counsel.


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/272050-breaking-another-ex-nigerian-governor-convicted-of-fraud.html

Mayrock:
I quoted what u said....name ur tribe and city....and u in turn starts calling south south a tribe whether na city.....pathetic...

pls lemme ask....

u go sch at all.....

come Immhotep, lzaa......

una brodas done start again....

immhotep:
fero007 is recycling the we-the-south-south dogma

CC lzaa onyeoga madridguy buhariguy omenka shalomc iceberg3 itsmeaboki yarimo odvanguard pointzerom t9ksy

Terminator1234g:
DON'T TAG ME PLS I'M STILL FASTING.

LZAA
ZOMBIEPUNISHER
TIMFISHER
RUTHLESSLEADER
ABOKIBUHARI
AND OTHER E-RATS WON'T LIKE THIS.


AND TO ALL MODS UNBAN SARKIN BEFORE TOMORROW

Ferdinandu:
It was obvious that that June 12 was annulled due to the agreement between IBB and Abacha.They had already allocated the Seat of Power within each other during their years of Coup. One will rule then give way to the other .They just sent Humphrey, Abiola, Tofa and their various Groups on wild goose chase.

NdiaraIGBO:
When will they put up Ojukwu's statue? Abi was he not once a Lagosian?

Cc Immhotep lzaa PrecisionFx and other that vanguard chimpanzee.

immhotep:
Igbo amaka

CC lzaa onyeoga madridguy buhariguy omenka shalomc iceberg3 itsmeaboki yarimo odvanguard pointzerom

immhotep:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87u255UM6Ro

CC lzaa onyeoga madridguy buhariguy omenka shalomc iceberg3 itsmeaboki yarimo odvanguard pointzerom

immhotep:
Meanwhile in Lagos
CC lzaa onyeoga madridguy buhariguy omenka shalomc iceberg3 itsmeaboki yarimo odvanguard pointzerom

Follygunners:
You're the one that needs to slap urself back to reality. You pple are way to uncivilized and savagery. You guys are too regressive.

This guy is 1000% correct! You guys behave like animals and believe everything is violence till you're treated like the real animals you're.

kingzizzy:
No doubt is respected man. Do Igbos respect Fela more than they respect Ojukwu? Not a chance. Fela fought human rights abuse, Ojukwu fought for something far more important, the liberation of his people.

Fela fought with his music and mouth, Ojukwu fought with live bullets.

Naturally, the Yoruba narrative is that Ojukwu started a war but it was you Nigerians that came to the East were Ojukwu and his people were enjoying their new country to come and fight them.

Ojukwu led millions of his people to their deaths, it is not painting Ojukwus people. It is you Yorubas it is paining. Crying more than the bereaved.

Ojukwu fought the might of the Nigerian Army for 3 years. No Yoruba man will ever have the backbone or guts to fight for the liberation of the Yoruba people in my life time, let alone get to the stage of running away. Yorubas are not made of that sort of stuff in this 21st century.

As I said before, Yorubas and Igbos dont have anything in common. All we have is that Lugard forced all of us together in 1914.

But if someone like Nnamdi Kanu comes out and says he wants his people to go their way, Yoruba unity beggars will start foaming at the mouth.

Roger3D:
But it doesn't mean that we won't yab you ibos, in fact we will continue yabbing you until Jesus returns

Roger3D:
Rubbish! You are talking like a typical Ibo man, nothing but empty chest beating. No ethnic group or race is superior to another.

cc LZAA come and learn one of life's most important lessons

Follygunners:
At the bolded. HAHAHAHAHA. You must be a pretender or just a pure novice.. How many uncountable news have we all (on this Forum alone) read and heard abt Igbo pple suing themselves over various land ownership all over Ogun, Ekiti, Oyo and co.?

deomelo:
I just wonder why your ipob brothers are fighting and dying over silly eze titles in Ibadan and even Ondo state. You have village eze clowns in Osun state too.


Btw, didn't the Deji of Akure banned your eze village people and closed your markets in Ondo state?


This is the problem with you people, you people don't know poo about yourselves, you just open mouth and spew ignorance...

olas24u:
you do drugs and destroy humans in other peoples land.when you succeed you call yourself baifrans.when they are caught you call them nigerians.dont you think you are the greatest morons

Follygunners:
Guy, you never answer my question. All those places you mentioned are too sub-standard, abeg. How many oyinbo pple you dey see for poor places?
Why are you all running to Yoruba-lands like 9ja pple dey run go abroad? Chai.. Okoro pple don suffer, I swear!

olas24u:
You cannot stay in your place of origin because its a dry land and nothing is happening there.

Follygunners:
But why are you all so dependent on Yoruba-land?

omooba969:
Nnamdi Kanu did a lot of damage by messing up the psyche of an average Igbo man with his divisive & hate speech. Pursuing Biafra is equal to chasing shadows coz the Igbo nation is already a house divided against itself, so who's gonna do the job of unifying you people.

Igbos are typically known to always ride on emotions & they hardly look before they leap, that's why they often become victims of error & are always at a disadvantage in the long run.

The same orientation that Mr. Igbokwe is trying to rectify is what most Igbo guys here are shamelessly showcasing, denying him & calling him a mad man.

Sad.

Follygunners:
Yoruba are too superior and civilized to okoro pple anytime, anyday. I've always called you guys bunch of Savages and, thank God I've been vindicated!

Follygunners:
Very true... these are the fools with >95% Christians yet, they lack every characteristics of a true Christian.

The 10 biggest churches in Africa are all Yoruba-led / owned.

Now, go fight with the bitter truth. Awon okoro olofo!

TeejayMaya:
Joe Igbokwe says it raw!

"Did the Yoruba go to war when June 12 1993 Presidential Election won by their illustrious son Chief MKO Abiola was annulled on June 23rd 1993 on a sheet of paper by IBB?

Did Yoruba go to war when Abiola’s wife Alhaja Kudirat Abiola was murdered in Lagos in the morning of Jun 4 1996?

Did Yoruba go to war when the winner of that historic election was poisoned on July 7 1998?

Did Yoruba go to war when those who killed Abiola imposed Obasanjo on them as President in 1999?

Did Yoruba accept Chief Ernest Shonekan when IBB made him to head the interim government in 1993? Yoruba rejected OBJ and Shonekan because this unique race has never been slaves to public office and yet they have remained number one in Nigeria in almost everything. This is wisdom and strategic thinking at work.

Those of us who have lived in Yoruba land for years should not only learn how to wear Aso Ebi, eat Ewedu soup or dance Owambe, music.

We must have also learned other unique things from them like sharing property to both male and female children, religious tolerance, ethnic tolerance, transferring legacies from generation to generation. Do you know that APC National Leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s wife is a Christian? Do you know that former Governor Fashola’s wife is a Christian? We can learn a lot from Yoruba. Yoruba too can learn from Igbo in areas of thinking home, business enterprise, self-help, apprenticeship, etc.

A Yoruba woman, a Pastor Mrs. Eunice Olawale Elisha of the Redeemed Christian Church of God old NEPA Road Phase 4 Kubwa, Abuja was killed by unknown persons on Saturday morning of July 9, 2016, while preaching the gospel around 5.30am. I have followed the reactions on the internety and Yoruba do not behave like the Igbo. They have been speaking but not preaching hate. They have called for the culprits to be fished out, prosecuted and punished. If Mrs. Eunice Elisha had been an Igbo hell would have been let loose. There would have been abuses and abuses. But Yoruba are not Igbo. This is civilization. This is strategic thinking. I hope our people can learn from this. Civility is not a sign of weakness. He who fights and run away lives to fight another day.

When GEJ marginalized Yoruba in his cabinet for five years despite been the most vocal in an effort to make him president, Yorubas didn't threaten anybody, they didn't abuse anybody, they simply fought in a peaceful & civilized way to effect a change in 2015 using their PVC. Today the most active VP since the independence & most likely, the next president of Nigeria is Yoruba. Fashola heads 3 ministries & referred to as prime minister in some parlance, Kemi Adeosun heads finance, Fayemi heads mines etc. That's how to fight for relevance in multi faceted country like Nigeria & not taking up arm against everybody.

To have ears is not to listen, to listen is not to hear, to hear is not to understand, to understand is not to put to practice. I know that writing this may not get me many friends among the Igbo, but it always gets me the right ones"

- Joe Igbokwe
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Follygunners:
At last, one sensible okoro man! God bless you, jare!

lzaa

Stevenson1:
Some people here might be feeling sorry for the lady but sure don't know what the man is feeling now. it's well sha. RIP to the woman. They should look out for the husband.

grandstar:
You nailed it 100% on the head

The man doesn't even know how to cook it. He should have beheaded it and cut it into pieces and then roasted it. (Well, I might be wrong )

Birchi33:
We christians are stupidity are like 5 & 6.The abokis wey we de abuse everyday no go try der one 4reva.SHIT...

Justiceleague1:
Coneheads are sad...they wish they can lay their hand on and harvest its head.
Lzaa

Celestyn8213:
You killed one of your ancestors and you feel as if you achieved a great feat. What's the difference between this and human. Hungry man.

Wisdomkosi:
Posted by Wisdom Nwedene

According to story trending online, this gorilla was killed with the help of local hunters in Warri.

Here they are roasting it to cook. Nigerians can chop anything wey dem see sha, can you eat this please?

More photos here : http://igberetvnews.com/440278/nigerians-kill-gorrila-roast-it-on-fire-this-happenedphotos/

Stevenson1:
First time seeing this news I knew it must be something related to cheat, unfaithfullness and betrayal but didn't know in particular what it could be. I say organize family DNA test now and you will lose your entire hope in marriage and trust. That's the kind of period we are at now. Me, I must do that DNA oo. No matter how I love and trust a gal. it's a capital MUST!!!