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EXCLUSIVE: How Abba Kyari Asked Me To Divert Cash, Assets Seized From Slain Kidnap Kingpin E-Money Ezenwa: Police Lawyer Narrates
Abba Kyari, Nigeria’s disgraced police commissioner, ordered the instant diversion into non-public custody all money and property seized from slain abduction lord Collins ‘E-Cash’ Ezenwa in 2018, Peoples Gazette can report based mostly on police inside memo and testimonies of a police prosecutor.
The police prosecutor Nosa Uhumwangho disclosed this to the NBA Authorized Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) on Wednesday, as controversies have continued to path how the police managed Mr Ezenwa’s property since he was killed in 2018.
Present, the wife of the late kidnapper had accused Mr Kyari and his crew of trying to take over her late husband’s companies and property in addition to withdrawing cash from his accounts into their non-public pockets.
Mr Kyari who’s at the moment beneath investigation for fraudulent actions had in 2019 denied any wrongdoing after Nigeria Human Rights Fee and Amnesty Worldwide in separate petitions accused the Intelligence Response Staff headed by the suspended police chief of illegally depleting the asset of the kidnap kingpin.
However Mr Uhumwangho, the IRT authorized officer in a 131-paragraph affidavit submitted to the NBA-LPDC on June 30 this 12 months and seen by Peoples Gazette, mentioned he diverted N3,075,300 generated from Mr Ezenwa’s De-Ingrid Lodge and one other property at Edingurgh, Enugu into his non-public account on the orders of Mr Kyari.
The order that the funds be diverted into his private Zenith Checking account was for “causes finest recognized” to Mr Kyari, in line with the police prosecutor.
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Mr Uhumwangho additionally alleged that Mr Kyari ordered a infamous cultist, Tochukwu Okeke, to acquire rents from Mr Ezenwa’s properties on his behalf. Mr Okeke is at the moment detained on the 82 Division of the Nigerian military over alleged ties with IPOB gunmen within the southeast.
The lawyer’s testimony adopted a petition by a lawyer and human rights activist Justice Ijeoma who accused him of “conduct unbecoming of a authorized practitioner”.
Mr Ijeoma in his petition to the NBA-LDPC additionally accused Mr Uhumwangho of conniving with different officers to illegally convert Mr Ezenwa’s properties.
Mr Kyari had in a letter dated twenty fifth January, 2019 claimed that the NHRC authorised him to recuperate cash from the kidnap kingpin’s account and pay it in a non-public account whereas the matter was pending in courtroom.
“The Nationwide Human Rights Fee of Nigeria (Presidential Panel on SARS Reforms) which sat in Abuja on twenty fifth January 2019, directed the Authorized Officer of IGP-IRT to recuperate cash in possession of any individual controlling the aforesaid properties and make them render an account.
“In view of the above-stated reality, you might be hereby directed/ordered to recuperate any cash therefrom and take possession and ensure it’s correctly saved and protected in your custody, as a result of if paid into the Police account, will probably be tough to recuperate it and tender it earlier than the courtroom because the matter remains to be pending on the Honourable Federal Excessive Court docket, Owerri Judicial Division. The courtroom might make a requirement for it within the nearest future,” Mr Kyari’s letter learn.
The declare was, nonetheless, denied by sources from the NHRC panel which sat between- 14 and 26 January 2019.
The Gazette couldn’t instantly attain Mr Kyari for feedback, whereas the spokesperson for the police, Frank Mba didn’t reply to request searching for clarifications on whether or not or not it’s a commonplace police process for property beneath investigation to be diverted into non-public custody as a manner of preserving proof.
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M Ezenwa, a former police corporal was killed on January 27, 2018, alongside Enugu-Owerri Expressway, whereas he journeyed with two of his cousins who had been additionally alleged to be kidnappers.
The late kidnapper joined the police in 2009 and resigned on N47, 000 wage in November 2017.
