Currently the senator representing Plateau Central Senatorial District, Senator Dariye is still wanted in the UK by the Metropolitan Police in connection with a money laundering scandal for which he was arrested in 2004. Senator Dariye served as governor between May 1999 and May 2007 but was abruptly impeached in 2004 before he was reinstated.
He was arrested in September 2004 in his Marriot Hotel room in London by the Metropolitan Police and amounts of money in different currencies totalling over £90,000 were recovered from him. Yesterday, an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission detective Musa Sunday, told a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Gudu, how the former governor allegedly shared N1.162bn belonging to the state.
According to Mr Sunday, Senator Dariye allegedly disbursed the N1.16bn to his political associates and officials of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Plateau State. He said investigations by his team of detectives revealed that the ex-governor gave N100m traced to a company called Marine Float Nigeria owned by Alhaji Abubakar.
Mr Sunday added: “The Ecological Fund Office is under the presidency but the office of the vice president oversees it and the vice president chairs the agency’s activities. The vice-president at that time was Alhaji Abubakar Atiku.”
He also said N100m was traced to the PDP southwest, which was received by then minister of special duties, Yomi Edu, while N80m was paid to then permanent secretary of the Ecological Fund Office in the presidency, Kingsley Nkoma. According to Mr Sunday, a further was paid N10m to a former deputy senate president Ibrahim Mantu, with N6.8m going to the PDP Plateau State and N66m to 274 PDP wards in the state.
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