365Daily– The Federal Government has given approval for the extradition of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, who was indicted in a fraud case b the United States of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The Federal Government, throught the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation headed by Abubakar Malami, filed an extradition application at the Federal High Court in Abuja following a request by the Diplomatic Representative of the U.S. Embassy in Abuja.
The request from the U.S. authorities, according to Mr Malami, is “for the surrender of Abba Alhaji Kyari, who is a subject in a superseding three counts indictment”.
The AGF reportedly expressed satisfaction that the allegations against Kyari were neither political nor trivial, adding that reasonable grounds were already established to proceed against Mr Kyari on the basis of the allegations against him.
In the application marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/249/2022, filed under the Extradition Act, Malami assured that the request by the U.S. authorities was not made to persecute punish Mr Kyari on account of his race, religion, nationality or political opinions but in good faith and the interest of justice.
“If surrendered,” the AGF said Mr Kyari “will not be prejudiced at his trial and will not be punished, detained or restricted in his personal liberty, by reason of his race, nationality or political opinions”.
He also assured the court that given the nature of the offences he was being requested for, “it will not be unjust or oppressive, or be too severe a punishment, to surrender him”.
The AGF also said there were no criminal proceedings pending against Mr Kyari in Nigeria on the same offences he was being sought for in the U.S.
In July 2021, instagram celebrity, Ramon Abass, aka Huspuppi, named ‘super cop’, Kyari, as a co-conspirator in $1.1 million fraud case.
Last month, Kyari again made headlines after the NDLEA declared him wanted in a 25kg cocaine deal.