The Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA), has slammed Abba Kyari, the Commissioner of Police, whom infamous cybercriminal Hushpuppi, indicted in a $1.1 million scam deal.
As reported on Politics Nigeria, Hushpuppi alleged that Kyari was bribed after the scam, which victimised a Qatari businessman.
But distancing himself from Hushpuppi’s claim, Kyari said he didn’t take bribe from him, but linked the embattled Instagram celebrity with his fashion designer, whom he paid a sum of N300,000 to for some clothes and caps.
“Later, he saw some of my native clothes and caps on my social media page and he said he likes them and he was connected to the person selling the clothes and he sent about N300k directly to the person’s account. The native clothes and caps (five sets) were brought to our office and he sent somebody to collect them in our office,” the police officer said.
Reacting to the bribery allegation against Kyari, who’s arguably the most decorated Nigerian cop, HURIWA, in a statement, said “we think it is disgraceful that a serving Commissioner of Police publicly admitted to having acted as a go-between a local tailor and the then Dubai-based fraud kingpin.”
“Is there no longer a code of conduct between the Police and members of the public, especially with regard to the kind of relationship that should exist between such a top officer and someone that, even before he was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was already a person of interest?” he group questioned.
HURIWA, however, charged Kyari to fly to the United States to prove the allegation wrong. The group’s statement, continued: “We in the organised civil rights body think that as someone who has claimed to have a good conscience that the best way forward is to immediately and voluntarily to travel to the American court to prove the allegation wrong.”
