*Says Abba Kyari An Overrated Cop, ‘Super Fraud’
*Makes Shocking Revelations
A lawyer, Kabir Akingbolu has narrated his encounters and the disheartening ordeals of his clients with beleaguered and now apprehended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. It would be recalled that Abba Kyari who had been on suspension since last year following allegations of connivance with popular internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas (a.k.a Hushpuppi) was recently arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for his involvement in the trafficking and sale of 20kg of cocaine.
In an interview with Punch newspaper, Akingbolu narrated his encounters with Abba Kyari and the arbitrariness, highhandedness and lawlessness with which he carried out his operations. According to him, his first encounter with Abba Kyari was when he (Kyari) and his team invaded the residence of his client, Hafeez Mojeedm stole his properties and incarcerated him for months.
Narrating the incident, he said “…..With some of his cohorts, he arrested my client in a commando style. They got to Mojeed’s house around 9:30pm; the wife was five months old pregnant. They laid them on the ground, collected all their belongings, including the golden wedding rings of both the wife and husband, their travelling and title documents, wristwatch and his 2012 model Honda Accord. They collected 32 items from them which we listed.
After collecting all these things, they took my client to custody. Mojeed said he did not know what he did and he was held in custody for 14 days. They took his ATM and collected its password. There was N840,000 in the account; Kyari and his men used this money to buy things in Shoprite, Chicken Republic until the balance left in that account was minus N200.
Not only that, after beating Mojeed to a pulp to the point where he was dripping with blood, he confessed to them that he had a fixed deposit of N41,800,000 in an account. They took him to a bank and brought a guy with them, one Mr Obi, who was one of their agents used to commit such criminality. There, they ordered my client to unfix the money and transfer all of it to Mr Obi, claiming that he was the rightful owner of the money. But Mojeed said he did not know and had never met Mr Obi before, so they left the bank, went to a boutique, removed Mojeed’s clothes stained with blood and bought him another one.
Then they took him back to the bank and made him unfix the account and transferred the money to Obi and that was the end of it. There was another money in another bank which was N15m. On getting to this bank, the woman said they should apply but they would have to wait till Monday to get the money and that day was Friday, so they did not unfreeze that one.”
According to him, when he confronted Kyari about the illegality of his actions, he attempted to reach a compromise with him promising to share the 15 million naira with him, an offer he rejected.
According to the lawyer, several petitions were written to the police hierarchy to no avail even as he refused to heed to clear judgements of the Court.
He further narrated other gory incidences involving the once celebrated officer dubbed “Nigeria’s most decorated police officer”.
He described him as a super fraud who clandestinely manipulated the media to create a heroic image when he was far short of such in person.
“Abba Kyari is an overrated cop. He is a super fraud. What he does is that, when he arrests 10 criminals, he will settle and collect money from eight or nine of them, he will now use one of them to make a noise in the media. He knows how to use the press effectively. If every policeman in Nigeria has to be making videos and granting press interviews in respect of the criminals he has arrested, I do not think our airspace will be free of such things.”
CREDIT: Punch newspaper
