Hushpuppi: AGF confirms reasonable grounds to proceed against Abba Kyari
Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said the Federal Government will bring back embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a. Sunday Igboho, to Nigeria after his prosecution in Benin Republic. The AGF spoke, yesterday, on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme.
Igboho was declared wanted by the Department of State Services (DSS) for allegedly stockpiling arms to destabilise Nigeria, an allegation he denied, before he escaped to the neighbouring francophone country in July 2021. But he ran out of luck as he was arrested by the Interpol at a Benin airport when he tried to board a Germany-bound flight.
He had since been remanded in a prison in Benin Republic for over six months where he is said to be facing trial for immigration-related offences, among others.
Commenting on Igboho’s ordeal, Malami said the case is a matter being prosecuted by a foreign country on account of breaching its laws in Benin Republic.
He said: “We’ll allow the law of a nation that was indeed breached to take its natural cause, and then, perhaps, thereafter, bring him back home after the conclusion of the trial for the purpose of facing the Nigerian law that was accordingly breached.”
The position of things is that we are not interfering in aborting the existing prosecution of the foreign land.” The AGF further disclosed that there are reasonable grounds to proceed against suspended celebrity police officer, Abba Kyari, who was fingered in a multi-million dollars fraud spearheaded by Ramon Abass, aka Hushpuppi.
The U.S. government had, in July 2021, unveiled the charges against Kyari and other alleged co-conspirators. Hushpuppi, a Nigerian Instagram celebrity, until his arrest in Dubai, UAE, in June 2020, is one of the arrowheads of the scam. He has pleaded guilty to the charges in a separate case, and his sentence is billed to come up later in the year.
Police authorities conducted an enquiry into Kyari’s roles in the scam, but continue to keep sealed lips over the outcome, despite persistent demand for the outcome to be released.
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