The likelihood of extraditing the embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari or not, lies with the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, following a report of the investigative panel that was submitted last week.
Abba Kyari’s alleged involvement in the $1.1m fraud perpetrated by an Instagram influencer, Abbas Ramon, commonly known as Hushpuppi and four others has become a source of concern as a result of embarrassment it has caused the already battered image of the Nigerian Police.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States declared the Super cop wanted after the international scammer, Hushpuppi who was notorious for fleecing international businessmen was arrested in Dubai and whisked to the United States.
The development prompted the Police Service Commission (PSC) that has disciplinary powers to authorise the IGP, to set up a probe panel to unravel the circumstances surrounding the weighty allegation against Abba Kyari.
Report of the panel, CAPITAL POST learnt over the weekend, which was submitted to the AGF, Abubakar Malami
indicted Kyari.
A source privy to the panel stated that there were many recommendations for and against Abba Kyari, but evidence of financial transaction of $20,600 paid into a proxy account on the order of Mr Kyari which is already in the public domain made the case a bad one, CAPITAL POST can authoritatively report.
The report was signed by the Special Investigative Panel (SIP) Chairman,. DIG Joseph Egbunike, and other members and was submitted to the IG on August 26, at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, 24 days after the panel was inaugurated.
Though, Abba Kyari has been suspended from the department that made him famous and was replaced with another Police officer as head, he’s still in the service and the Attorney General was expected to peruse the report and give his legal opinion on the extradition demand and other issues inferred from the evidences available to the panel.
A Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, Andrew Innocenti, had in a document titled, ‘Criminal Complaint By Telephone Or Other Reliable Electronic Means’ filed before the United States District Court for the Central District of California, alleged that Hushpuppi contracted Kyari to detain a co-conspirator, Chibuzo Vincent, for threatening to expose the alleged $1.1m fraud committed against a Qatari businessman.
The agency also said Hushpuppi paid $20,600 into a bank account provided by Kyari. The court ordered that Kyari be detained for 10 days.
