Disgraced police officer Abba Kyari says his arrest and continued detention at the Kuje prison has emboldened criminals in their incessant...
Disgraced police officer Abba Kyari says his arrest and
continued detention at the Kuje prison has emboldened criminals in their
incessant onslaught against Nigeria.
Mr Kyari made the statement through his lawyer Nureini
Jimoh, who prayed the Federal High Court in Abuja to review his bail
application initially rejected.
Citing instances of insecurity such as the Kaduna-Abuja
train bombing on March 28, the Kaduna airport attack, as well as rampant
banditry on the road linking Kaduna to Abuja, Mr Kyari argued that the country
had become a hotbed of crises ever since his arrest.
“Upon the incarceration of the applicants, criminality in
the nation has risen up. The Kaduna train attack, Kaduna-Abuja road attack as
well as Kaduna airport attack was a result of the incarceration of the
applicants,” partly reads the document submitted to the court. Mr Kyari’s
brother Mohammed swore an affidavit that contained details of the disgraced
police officer’s argument.
Seen by Peoples Gazette, Mr Kyari further stressed in the
document that failure of the police to apprehend the bandits was hinged largely
on his detention, insinuating security officials were incapable of functioning
efficiently without his professional input.
Mr Kyari said: “The entire plan to incarcerate the
applicants led to the criminal upsurge and other high level insecurity in the
country. Since the incarceration of the applicants, the police have not
recorded any level of success on the senseless attack(s) across the country.”
Pleading to be granted bail, the disgraced cop said his life
and that of his accomplices were at risk sharing the correctional facility with
criminals that they put in jail, including IPOB/ESN fighters, Onye army,
terrorists from Kuje/Nyanya-Abuja bombing and more.
“At the centre, the applicants who were Head and deputy head
of the Intelligence Response Team of the Nigeria Police Force met stiff
resistance, attack and open threats to the lives of the applicants by series
head of criminal gang that they had bursted.
“There is no correctional centre that the criminals that
have been arrested by the IRT under the headship of the applicant in
furtherance of their constitutional and statutory duties as police officers
cannot be found and there is a high likelihood of threat to the lives of the
applicants,” Mr Kyari’s lawyer argued in the court document.
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