The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has petitioned the United States government, demanding fairness in the matter involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI and suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari.
The group expressed worry over the trajectory around Kyari’s case, also asked the US not to discountenance the Nigeria’s ability to protect Kyari’s legal rights.
The CNG petition, dated August 15, 2021, was signed by the spokesman of the group, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman.
“We note a number of “fundamental procedural lapses in the conduct of the investigation, which tend not only to threaten the sovereign status of Nigeria, but also infringe on its citizen’s rights and civil liberties; threatens the rule of law and confronts the humanity and civilization that the people United States of America stands for.”
“We also note that the FBI might have breached another fundamental criminal justice procedure by not according Mr Kyari the benefit of being heard before going ahead with the purported indictment by an American Court in the US for an offence purportedly committed in Nigeria, triable under Nigerian laws, by Nigerian courts and on Nigerian land.”
“A breach of decorum and the negligence of the procedure might have also occurred when the FBI hurriedly published the purported indictment online without first intimating the Nigerian authorities and hearing the accused’s case,” the petition said.
The statement continued: “Let it also be clear that there is a mounting public concern that the action of the FBI could suggest that the US might willfully be participating in Nigeria’s current political chase game and playing the card of the gang-up of regional and ethnic propagandists against northern interests.”
“It is therefore important that our friends in the US understand what a destabilised Nigeria will mean to the entire sub-Saharan region. As the most populous country on the continent and one that continues to influence peace and stability across the sub-continent, any breakdown of law and order will further make dangerous the situation in terms of regional security, international cohesion, migration and other challenges that will affect Africa and beyond.”
es, it is important that the US negages protocol and path of justice in the matter of Abba Kyari who until now enjoys huge repute as a super cop by all sections of the country. But it is groundless insinuation to suggest that US is playing the card of anti-north tendency . Of course it is common knowledge that nepotism and ethnicism in favour of the North is the game in Nigeria, it is the other name of Buhari administration. Half hearted prosecution of Maina, reluctance to prosecutor the reported alleged financial sponsors of Boko Haram, refusal to declare world-denounced Fulani criminals herders as terrorists in spite of their being declared 4th most vicious terror gang and the silent support for Boko haram at its inception when their activities were directed against Christians and southerners, and so on. The CNG has been silent at the unorthodox procedure by the Buhari regime to smuggle Igboho into Nigeria and the clearly obnoxious method the regime brought Kanu int Nigeria. Who then is the guilty one.
Tell me why Nigeria will have peace again…
This is injustice to MNK and SUNDAY….
KAYRI is very a criminal human being
What is all this nonsense from northern ground. Just for one man to clear his name. From a crime if he’s innocent. Is that why u people re whipping all this centime. How will crime abate in North. When u don’t what people to account for their action. You are clothing borko haram. While their victims are languishing in Idp camp.
Naija can never be free from corruption, the upper hand is not nourished. How can the down chamber be nourished