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Appeal Court rejects alleged drug dealer Abba Kyari’s bail request

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The Abuja Division of the Appeal Court has dismissed an appeal by disgraced police chief Abba Kyari, who sought to reverse the Federal High Court’s refusal of his bail application.

A three-member panel dismissed the suit for lacking merit on Friday.The Justice Stephen Adah-led panel held that the bail request should be handled cautiously following the nature of the charges against him.

On August 30, Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja, dismissed Mr Kyari’s fresh bail application.

The judge held that the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police gave insufficient grounds for the application to be granted.

Mr Kyari, charged by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for drug offences, sought another bail following the attack on Kuje Correctional Centre by Boko Haram.

NDLEA accused Mr Kyari and four other officers of the Inspector General of Police (IGP)’s Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of dealing with part of the 21.8 kilogrammes of cocaine recovered from Chibunna Umeibe and Emeka Ezenwanne.

The other officers are Bawa James, Simon Agirgba, John Nuhu, and Sunday Ubua.

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Alleged cocaine deal: Abba Kyari files fresh application seeking to strike out case

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The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari has filed a fresh application to strike out the drug trafficking charges preferred against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

In the motion filed by his counsel, Ikpeazu Ikpeazu, he argued that the alleged offense his client is being tried for was committed during a police investigation and the Police Service Commission (PSC) has the authority to discipline the offenders.

He said the five-count charge is similar or related to allegations previously made by the applicants’ Police Service Commission in respect of disciplinary action against police officers and it was for the same subject matter and for the same period.

“This charge against the applicants’ affected the completion of this constitutional procedure.

The application adds that the internal disciplinary action of the Police Service Commission provided by the Constitution against Abba Kyari and other applicants is a condition precedent before they can be charged by any other security agent/agency.

The disciplinary action by the Police Service Commission commenced earnestly and timely.

The applicants had previously answered a query issued to them by the police authority before the charge herein was filed against the applicants.

I know as a fact that the Police Service Commission has through the office of the IGP commenced the disciplinary procedure against the applicants and other defendants prior to the institution of this charge.

Without subjecting the applicants to the police disciplinary procedures that are constitutionally set down, the applicants are charged before the federal high court with counts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 8 under the NDLEA act and alleged to have committed the offenses in the course of the performance of their duties as police officers.

Failure of the complainant herein to await the disciplinary action against the applicants renders the charge incompetent and deprives this court of jurisdiction to entertain this charge.”the court notice read in part

It added that Abba Kyari and others have not waived their rights under the police disciplinary control which has begun before the instant charge was filed.

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Court denies Abba Kyari bail again

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he Federal High Court Abuja has again denied the bail application filed by suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, and three Others.

Kyari and three defendants had in their bail application argued that new facts relating to the Kuje Prison break and alleged threat to their lives warranted their fresh application.

In response, the NDLEA raised an objection arguing that they have not demonstrated how the new issues will not make them jump bail.

Delivering judgement on the bail application this morning, Justice Emeka Nwite agreed with the NDLEA legal team that the defendants have not demonstrated how they will not jump bail and interfere with the administration of criminal justice.

The court held that a threat to life in a detention facility is not a factor for granting bail.

The prosecution in its counter affidavit had submitted that Mr. Kyari and his co-defendants are flight risks as they would tamper with the money laundering investigations and the witnesses lined up for the trial.

The court had earlier made a pronouncement on the bail of the defendants and that there is nothing placed before the court to warrant a reconsideration of the earlier pronouncement of the court.

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ENDSARS panel orders NDLEA to produce Kyari March 30

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An independent panel of inquiry probing allegations of brutality and other rights violations by operatives of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) on Tuesday ordered the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to produce the suspended Head of Police Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, unfailingly on March 30.

This followed a petition filed by three persons challenging the unlawful arrest of their relatives.

The panel was put together by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

The petitioners – Ambrose Mairungu, and Blessing Dung – had in a petition marked 2020/IIP-SARS/ABJ/205 alleged that Yakubu Danjuma, Ibrahim Daniel and Choji, who is Dung’s husband, were unlawfully arrested, detained, tortured and received inhuman treatment from Kyari.

The panel on March 11 ordered the Chairman of NDLEA, Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa (retd), to produce the police officer on March 22 to defend himself on the allegations.

Kyari is currently detained by the agency for alleged link with an international drug cartel.

However, in response to the order, the police officer’s counsel, Abdullahi Haruna (SAN), sent an administrative letter was written to the chairman of the panel, Suleiman Galadima.

He requested that all petitions where Kyari’s name was mentioned be made available to him and promised to respond appropriately to the claims after two months.

A member of the panel, Mr. Garba Tetengi (SAN), who presided over the sitting in the absence of the chairman, rejected the request.

He adjourned the matter till March 30.

In the petition, Dung told the panel that her husband received a phone call from his friend, Danjuma, for a meeting outside the house on December 17, 2019.

She said: “I followed my husband outside and I sighted two tinted-glass vehicles with IRT written on them.

“I saw armed police officers who came out from the vehicles, cuffed my husband, shot in the air and drove off with him.”

She urged the panel to award N10 million compensation to the family.

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Stop blaming IPOB, carry your cross – Adamu Garba to Abba Kyari

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Former Presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba has said that suspended police officer, Abba Kyari should not blame members of the Indigenous People of Biafra for his ordeal.

It was reported earlier that Police arrested Kyari on Monday over drug trafficking allegation leveled against him.

However, while appearing before a probe panel, the former Head of Intelligence Response Team IRT, accused members of IPOB for being behind his travails.

He claimed that the proscribed secessionist group and its armed wing Eastern Security Network, ESN, were after him due to the onslaught launched against them in the South East.

In reaction to his statement, Garba said Kyari should face the consequences of his actions and desist from blaming the pro-Biafra group.

Taking to Facebook, he wrote; ”Abba Kyari should stop blaming IPOB or ESN even though we know who they are, but he should carry his cross because he acted as a common criminal and should be treated as one.”

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Abba Kyari deletes Facebook post of him revealing he was Hushpuppi’s fashion connect

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Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari has deleted his infamous Facebook update written in response to the allegations leveled against him by suspected internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi.

Recall that in the post by Kyai, he disclosed that he was only rendering tailoring-related services to Hushpuppi.

Kyari had stated that he barely knew Hushpuppi and urged the public to disregard the allegations because they contained no substance.

In the now-deleted post, the suspended DCP said his only connection with Abbas was when the fraudster saw some traditional attires on his social media page and contacted him that he liked them.

After Peoples Gazette and other news mediums published the fraud indictment and warrant of arrest document for Kyari, he still went on to circulate a statement via WhatsApp, claiming the documents were fake but this time without the bit about the tailoring services he rendered to Hushpuppi.

Following police’s confirmation that the documents were genuinely from the U.S. authorities, Mr Kyari was suspended from the police and a panel was raised to probe his involvement in a cross-border scheme of wire fraud and money laundering.

In the early hours of August 4, the police officer initially edited the Facebook post to remove the N300,000 claim and admit that he received N8 million from Hushpuppi to hold a member of their syndicate, Chibuzo Vincent, in custody for a $1.1 million cybercrime to pull through.

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Abba Kyari makes first appearance before IGP’s Special Panel

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The embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari has made his first appearance before a Special Investigation Panel (SIP), set up by the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to investigate accusations levelled against him by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

It would be recalled that Kyari was indicted by the FBI over his alleged collusion in a $1.1 million cyber fraud involving the internet fraudster, Abass Ramon aka Hushpuppi.

It was gathered that Kyari appeared before the SIP for the first time on Tuesday in Abuja to present his defence.

The SIP is headed by the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of the Force Criminal Investigations Department, Joseph Egbunike.

Ripples Nigeria had earlier reported that the FBI alleged that Hushpuppi paid Kyari $20,600, about N8 million to detain a co-conspirator, Chibuzor Vincent, after the latter threatened to expose the $1.1 million fraud to the victim, a Qatari businessman.

Though Kyari denied the allegations, the Police Service Commission (PSC), at the recommendation of the IGP, suspended the police officer on Sunday, after he acknowledged the receipt of FBI’s allegations against the cop, and ordered a probe into the matter.

Baba had also on Monday appointed Tunji Disu, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, to replace Kyari as the new Head of the Police Intelligence Response Team.

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Arewa Youths threaten to shut down Nigeria over embattled DCP Kyari

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The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, (AYCF) has vowed to shut down Nigeria if anything should happen to embattled Head of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) DCP Abba Kyari, following his indictment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over fraud and money laundering allegations, as well as the subsequent suspension by the Police Service Commission (PSC).

The AYCF, in a statement signed by the National Coordinator, Yerima Shettima and made available to Ripples Nigeria on Monday, declared that “nothing must happen to decorated officer, Abba Kyari,in the wake of his indictment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” or they will crumble the country.

The group described Kyari’s current travails as “the attempted intimidation of a police officer right inside his independent fatherland.”

It also rejected the “purported plans to arrest DCP Kyari,” describing the move by the FBI as “totally unacceptable, a slap on the sensibility of our compatriots and a ridicule on one of our finest crack detectives.”

The AYCF hereby warns the FBI and all those trying to rubbish the good works of DCP Abba Kyari that we will resist such attempts with everything within our powers.

“We are keeping taps on the happenings in the matter as there is no justification for singling out one of Nigeria’s most effective and efficient police officers for castigation.

“We are calling all Nigerians who are truly patriotic to stand behind a man who has made an unrivalled mark on the sands of time by diligently serving his fatherland.

“We also call on relevant stakeholders in the country, especially civil society organizations, to rally round this officer who risked his life in multiple operations across Nigeria, a fact proved many times through BBC news coverage of such operations.

While we are conscious of our sovereignty as a nation, we demand justice for a man with unrivalled records of detective capabilities in the recent history of Nigeria”, the group said

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Davido suspends his aide, Israel DMW for defending Abba Kyari

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Nigerian singer and DMW boss, David Adeleke popularly known as Davido, has reportedly suspended his personal logistics manager, Israel Afeare (Israel DMW) following his recent comments on social media.

An inside source told Instablog9ja that the decision was taken after Israel recently went on Instagram to defend Police chief, Abba Kyari over the Hushpuppi fraud scandal.

According to the source, Israel’s statement didn’t sit well with Davido, hence he had to take a decision to distance himself from the controversial case.

He is on suspension because of the things he says on social media which always involves his boss because of the tag ‘Davido’s aide’.

He has been asked not to come around or hang out with Davido. However, Isreal has promised to change,” the source said.

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Best wishes to ‘bad belle’ people waiting to see us arrested by FBI – Abba Kyari

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Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari says ‘bad belle Nigerians’ will wait forever to see him arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over bribery allegations leveled against him by suspected internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi.

Hushpuppi, who pleaded guilty to various charges, had said he paid Kyari to jail a fellow fraudster Kelly Chibuzor Vincent after both were locked in a dispute presumably over how to share the $1.1 million loot received from a Qatari businessperson.

But in his reaction on his Facebook page on Thursday morning, Kyari said he never demanded money from Hushpuppi, that he only helped connect him to the supplier of his native wears

Although he admitted to knowing about the money-related dispute, the DCP disclosed that it was about a threat to life and not connected to any multi-million dollar deal gone bad.

Also, a U.S. court had issued a warrant for the Federal Bureau of Investigations, (FBI) to arrest Kyari.

Replying to a comment on the post, the police boss asked those criticising him to produce the proof that there is a warrant for his arrest.

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US court orders FBI to arrest, detain Nigeria’s supercop, Abba Kyari

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A court in the United States has ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to ensure the arrest of an Assistant Commissioner of Police in the Nigerian Police Force, Abba Kyari.

The order is sequel to allegations made against Kyari by alleged fraudster, Abass Akande, also known as Hushpuppi, that he gave the policeman some money to ensure the arrest of another fraudster, Vincent.

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