Abba Kyari Claims Innocence, Drags FG To Court Over Detention

By Gideon Njoku

Suspended and very embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has instituted a suit against the Federal Government of Nigeria.

In suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/182/22, Kyari is pleading with the Court to grant him bail on health grounds.

In the exparte motion he filed on Monday, February 21, 2022, through his Counsel, Mrs P.O. Ikenna, Kyari claimed Innocence of the crime for which he is being detained.

His Counsel noted: “He is being held on the basis of a false allegation leveled against him.”

The Judge, the Hon. Justice Inyang Ekwo, when the case was called up, refused to grant Kyari bail on health grounds, and held that: “Upon studying the process of the applicant and averments in support therein, I am of the opinion that the Respondent should be put on notice.”

The Judge resisted all efforts by Kyari’s Counsel to persuade him to grant him bail because of his alleged deteriorating health condition.

Kyari had pleaded for the bail pending the determination of his suit against the Federal Government on the enforcement of his fundamental human rights.

The once celebrated crime buster was the Head of IGP’s Intelligence Respond Team, IRT. He was suspended by the Police Service Commission after America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation, inducted him over his entanglement in an internet international fraud involving international internet fraudster, Hushpuppi, who is in jail in the US. The FBI requested for Kyari’s extradition to the US to answer to charges.

However, while Investigation  into his involvement was going on, Kyari’s trouble ran over when the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, shocked Nigerians by alleging, with video evidence, that Kyari is not only neck-deep in, and hand-in-gloves with Drug Barons, but had tried to bribe its personnel with the sum of $61,000 to sell drugs recovered from Drug Barons at the Enugu International Airport, on behalf of its personnel.

He was subsequently declared wanted by the NDLEA. The Police arrested him and four other Police officers, allegedly, involved in the Cocaine scandal. They were handed over to the NDLEA, and have since been in the custody of the Agency for thorough interrogation.