FBI indictment: How Abba Kyari can come out clean
Foremost security expert and lawyer, Dr. Ody Ajike has said that the United State District Court order to arrest the Head, Nigerian Inspector General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team (IGP-IRT), Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari, over alleged role in a multi-million dollar fraud perpetrated by Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi, and his co-conspirators is a ‘sort of misplaced sophistication by US authorities’, and attempt to destroy the Nigeria police.
According to him, Kyari is a neutral and competent professional who has made giant strides in curbing predatory kidnapping and other various types of criminal insurgencies in Nigeria.
He said, “ the recent publicised order by a US court for the arrest and detention of DCP Abba Kyari is a sort of misplaced sophistication by US authorities.
“It’s actually in the shade of the usual US character of exerting messianic responsibilities around the world to suit their purposes and alter their internal contradictions. I agree a court can make such wide orders but we must understand the role of the US in the politics of insecurity in Nigeria.
“DCP Abba Kyari is a neutral competent professional who has made giant strides in curbing predatory kidnapping and other various types of criminal insurgencies in Nigeria.
“Is the US actually interested in ensuring that the Nigeria Police and IRT fail in their statutory duties? We need to look at this dimension critically. DCP Abba Kyari did not commit any offence on US soil or any offence denting the integrity of the US financial system. Why then grant an order for his arrest? I think the Nigerian State should resist the enforcement of such an order and treat it as a ploy to destabilize our internal security mechanism, which Kyari is playing a very critical role.”
Kyari can go to court and question it because there is procedure for enforcement of foreign judgement.
“They will first register it here through Mutual Assistance Legal programme, which the US has with Nigeria. Through this they have been taking people from here. He should question that order; the order is questionable. It is an indictment on him based on investigation.
“The court in US doesn’t have worldwide jurisdiction. What they will do is to come and register the order here and enforce it through government channel. It is at this point that Kyari can go to court and question it, and a court here can quash it. That was what the late Senator Kashamu Buruji did and they couldn’t take him. But, he won’t go outside Nigeria even to Dubai or they will arrest him. It is a big programme, but it depends on how he handles it,” Ajike said.
