{"id":710972,"date":"2019-09-26T16:01:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T16:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/26\/pardon-imprisoned-dariye-over-failing-health-group-begs-buhari\/"},"modified":"2019-09-26T16:01:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T16:01:44","slug":"pardon-imprisoned-dariye-over-failing-health-group-begs-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/26\/pardon-imprisoned-dariye-over-failing-health-group-begs-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardon Imprisoned Dariye Over Failing Health: Group Begs Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_401174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-401174\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-401174\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/joshua-dariye.jpg\" alt=\"Dariye\" width=\"710\" height=\"340\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-401174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Dariye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A group is known as the Youth Assembly, an NGO, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to give state pardon Senator Joshua Dariye who is in prison over his failing health.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dewan Gabriel, the group\u2019s president, said this while addressing newsmen on Thursday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Dariye, who represented Plateau Central Senatorial District in the 7th and 8th Senate, was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in June, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence was, however, reduced to 10 years after an appeal, according to NAN.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gabriel, Dariye, a former Plateau governor, has been of \u201cgood conduct\u201d in prison, had shown remorse for his action that got him in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>The group, however, said it in no way conducts stealing by public officer. \u201cLest we are misunderstood, we acknowledge and accept in good faith the reasons for his being jailed, which bordered on diversion of funds, which is a criminal offence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not, in any way, condone corruption of any kind, and Mr President is known for standing very firm in the fight against it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason for our appeal is based on his failing health. Long before his incarceration. he had been battling this ailment which requires close attention of specialists. He cannot access these specialists when in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want Mr President to tamper justice with mercy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0BREAKING News: Appeal Court Reduces Ex-Gov. Dariye\u2019s 14 Years Jail Term To 10 Years<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe laud Mr President\u2019s wisdom and kindness in not seeing the Nigerian Prison as a punitive institution but as a reformation centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is based on this magnanimity that he assented to the bill to change the Nigerian Prisons Service to Nigerian Correctional Service, in line with global practice. \u201cJoshua Dariye, we are sure, must have learnt enough lessons since his incarceration at the Kuje Prison,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Dariye A group is known as the Youth Assembly, an NGO, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to give state pardon Senator Joshua Dariye who is in prison over his failing health. Mr Dewan Gabriel, the group\u2019s president, said this while addressing newsmen on Thursday in Abuja. Senator Dariye, who represented Plateau Central Senatorial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":710973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pardon Imprisoned Dariye Over Failing Health: Group Begs Buhari - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/26\/pardon-imprisoned-dariye-over-failing-health-group-begs-buhari\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Pardon Imprisoned Dariye Over Failing Health: Group Begs Buhari - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Joshua Dariye A group is known as the Youth Assembly, an NGO, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to give state pardon Senator Joshua Dariye who is in prison over his failing health. 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