Three months after their pardon by the Council of State led by President Muhammadu Buhari, former Governors Sen. Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame have been released from Kuje correctional facility in Abuja.
Quest Times recalls that Sen. Dariye, a former Governor of Plateau and his former Taraba counterpart, Nyame, were granted state pardon on April 14, 2022.
The decision to grant the state pardon to the corrupt politicians generated a lot of controversy.
A source from the correctional facility told our correspondent that the former governors were set free around 2:15pm on Monday.
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Also released were three other inmates from Suleja Custodial Centre in Niger State.
“They were granted pardon based on ill health, age and good conduct and industry while in the custodial centre,” he said.
Efforts to get the spokesperson of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Abubakar Umar, for confirmation proved futile, but an official in the department said he was in a meeting.
Nyame was to serve a 12-year jail sentence for diverting N1.64 billion during his tenure as Governor of Taraba, while Dariye was serving 10 years’ imprisonment for N1.126 billion fraud.