A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has said he believes Nigerian police authorities are treating Abba Kyari’s case with levity.
He argued that the suspended policeman may soon be reabsorbed into the force.
The legal practitioner, who spoke on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday said the handling of Kyari’s extradition request by the US, points to the fact that the case might be swept under the carpet.
According to him: “For the event that that happened on Monday through the NDLEA, I am just sure that one day we will just wake up and see that Mr Kyari would have been reabsorbed into the Nigerian Police Force,”
“With all due respect, I think that was what Mr. IGP was working towards because if you look at the events, it would seem that the super cop was in the good books of those in power.”
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He added: If you are suspended effectively from an organisation and someone else called to replace you [in Kyari’s case, Tunde Disu], how do you have the capacity to still mobilise serving officers of the same unit; mobilise them to go as far as Enugu while on suspension?”
He blamed systemic mistakes for such lapses, cautioning that the development could dampen the morale of serving police officers
“We need to be careful in order not to demoralise other officers who are still working in other agencies and are doing their best patriotically to nip crime in the bud,”
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