*Says Minister has always played hide-and-seek over Kyari

*Calls for forensic investigations into circumstances surrounding death of DIG Egbunike

A Civil Rights Advocacy Group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has called for the dismissal of the Federal Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, for “disgracefully playing politics with the demand by the United States of America” to extradite the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Abba Kyari, to the United States of America to face prosecution over fraud allegations.

HURIWA has also asked the Anambra State government and the Governors of the South East to demand that investigations about the sudden death of the most senior Igbo Police Officer in Nigeria hitherto charged with the investigation of Abba Kyari be opened because there have been many accounts of how he died, alongside insinuations that his death was connected to his principled stand to indict Kyari.

In a statement by its National Coordiantor, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA said: “We are not pointing accusing fingers on any one in particular but the interest generated by a section of federal government officials on the case of Abba Kyari and the crude determination by these officials to frustrate any talk of extraditing their beloved ‘super cop’ shows that some desperate agents even working independent of the accused persons, may have masterminded the death of DIG Joseph Egbunike. So his death should be investigated independent of the police or government since both the police and federal government are in collusion to undermine the entire legal process of extradition application.”

The rights group said categorically that the plots allegedly by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, to save a former Commander of the Police Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, from facing criminal prosecution for alleged money laundering by writing a second and contradictory advice, has rubbished what is left of the international image of Nigeria and the World will view Nigeria as a criminal empire.

“If President Muhammadu Buhari has any honour left in his administration, then he must sack Abubakar Malami with immediate effect or leave him in office and surely his government has gone down in history as that which sabotaged the constitution and the principle of rule of law to massage their ethnic and tribal ego and interests.”

HURIWA further stated that the second contradictory opinion by Abubakar Malami which attempts to free the police officer, shows that all the while that the Federal Attorney-General and Minister of Justice and by extension, the federal government of President Muhammadu Buhari, has never planned to hand over Kyari to the Federal Bureau of Investigation but were simply deceiving gullible Nigerians.

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