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Extradition Of Abba Kyari: HURIWA Blasts AGF, Malami
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has fired a direct shot at the Attorney General of the Federation, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), over what it claimed as the grand hypocrisy in the extradition suit he filed against the DCP Abba Kyari who is wanted in the United States.
GWG recalls that a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, dismissed a suit by the Federal Government seeking to extradite Kyari to face trial over his alleged involvement with the convicted internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi.
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But the court, in a judgement that was delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo, held that the extradition application FG filed through the office of the AGF was “incompetent and bereft of merit”.
Justice Ekwo held that the AGF being the Chief Law Officer of the country, ought to be aware that the Extradition Act, forbade the surrendering of a defendant that is already facing trial before a competent court in the country.
Reacting to the judgment on the extradition suit via a statement by the unions National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA noted that Malami should know better as a law officer of the country that the case of Kyari is a fait accompli which means the suspended head of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team cannot be extradited to the United States since he is facing drug-related crimes brought against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
The statement reads: “This was prearranged and predetermined long before this decision of the Federal High Court which reflected the sinister plot of the AGF to frustrate the actual extradition of the Borno born police officer to the USA”.
“The grand hypocrisy and shenanigan of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) in the DCP Abba Kyari’s case is now obvious,” HURIWA said.
“The action of the AGF is condemnable since he deliberately filed another matter against Kyari before seeking his extradition when as a lawyer he ought to know that it is a fait accompli since under the law you can’t extradite someone already facing a separate charge in Nigeria.
“It is important to ask the justice minister why he didn’t file the extradition suit about a year after Kyari was declared wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation until the NDLEA imbroglio. The whole drama, Nigerians know, is a planned script,” HURIWA said in flaying Malami over the court judgment on the extradition of Abba Kyari.
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