Abba Kyari Court Case Is Set For Judgment In An Extradition Suit 

Today, August 29, 2022, a Federal High Court in Abuja will issue its ruling in a case brought by the federal government to have suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police DCP Abba Kyari extradited to the US.

By Omotayo Olutekunbi

The decision about the future of the temporarily suspended Police Chief will be delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Abuja division of the Court.

In order to facilitate Kyari’s extradition to the United States of America to respond to fraud claims there, the Federal Government’s Attorney General of the Federation, or AGF, filed the extradition charges against him.

According to the judgment notice that newsmen saw in the lawsuit, which was served on the Federal Government and Abba Kyari’s legal team, it will be delivered this morning, Monday, August 29, 2022.

The American authorities requested Kyari’s extradition so he could give his own account of a $1.1 million wire scam that an online fraudster named Abass Ramon, nicknamed Hushpuppi, had claimed Kyari was involved in.

With the permission of the US District Court, a jury in America indicted Kyari in April 2021 and asked that he face trial for conspiracy to conduct wire fraud, money laundering, and identity theft.

The American embassy subsequently requested Kyari’s extradition, stating that “on April 29, 2021, based on the indictment filed by the Grand Jury and with the approval of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, a Deputy Clerk of the court issued a warrant of arrest for Kyari.”

“Kyari is the subject of an indictment in case number 2:21-cr-00203 (also referred to as 2:21-mj-00760 and 2:21-cr-00203-rgk), filed April 29, 2021, in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.”

In laying the charges, it was stated that the request for Kyari’s surrender was made in the interest of justice and not to punish or persecute him because of his ethnicity, religion, nationality, or political beliefs.

Kyari was also detained by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on February 12 as part of an inquiry into charges involving the trafficking of hard drugs. He was then charged with a crime and brought before a judge after being indicted.