IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY IN THE ABUJA JUDICIAL DIVISION HOLDEN AT ABUJA BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP HON. JUSTICE A.A.I. BANJOKO- JUDGE DELIVERED ON THE 12TH OF JUNE 2018 CHARGE NO: FCT/HC/CR/81/07 BETWEEN FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA…………………………………………………………..……………..COMPLAINANT AND CHIEF JOSHUA CHIBI DARIYE……………………………………………………….……………………...….DEFENDANT ROTIMI JACOBS SAN WITH H.O. EJIGA ESQ, O.A. ATOLAGBE ESQ, TAYO OLUKOTUN ESQ FOR THE PROSECUTION KANU G. AGABI (CON), SAN WITH PAUL EROKORO SAN, JOHN OCHOGWU ESQ, PETER ERIVWODE ESQ AND AKINOLA AFOLARIN ESQ FOR THE DEFENCE JUDGMENT Chief Joshua Chibi Dariye, a Former Two-Term Governor of Plateau State of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007 and currently a Serving Senator at the National Assembly representing Plateau Central Senatorial District is charged on a23 Count Amended Charge Sheet dated and filed on the 9th of May 2016 before this Court for the following Counts of Offences: COUNT 1 That you CHIEF JOSHUA CHIBI DARIYE on or about 19th July, 2001 at Abuja in the Abuja Judicial Division of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory while being the Governor of Plateau State and in such capacity entrusted with dominion over certain Properties to wit: the Cheque in the Sum of N1, 161, 162, 900.00 (One Billion, One Hundred and Sixty One Million, One Hundred and Sixty Two Thousand, Nine Hundred Naira), which you collected from the Ecological Funds Office in Abuja for and on behalf of Plateau State Government and which Sum was meant to address the ecological problems of the State committed Criminal Breach of Trust in respect of the said Properties when you deposited the Cheque with your Banker (AllStates Trust Bank Plc.) Abuja Branch and cleared same through the said Bank, where you operated an Account in the name of an Unregistered Company (Ebenezer Retnan Ventures), without paying the Cheque into the Account of Plateau State Government that it was meant for and you committed an Offence punishable under Section 315 of the Penal Code Act Cap 532 Laws of Federation of Nigeria 1990. COUNT 2 1

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