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Abba Kyari diverted cash, assets seized from slain kidnap kingpin E-Money — Police Lawyer confesses

Adesina .O (Teekay) by Adesina .O (Teekay)
September 3, 2021
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Embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari allegedly ordered the immediate diversion into private custody all cash and assets seized from slain abduction lord Collins ‘E-Money’ Ezenwa in 2018.

According to Peoples Gazette, the police prosecutor, Nosa Uhumwangho disclosed this to the NBA Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) on Wednesday.

Gift, the wife of the late kidnapper had accused Kyari and his team of attempting to take over her late husband’s businesses and property as well as withdrawing money from his accounts into their private pockets.

Kyari had in 2019 denied any wrongdoing after Nigeria Human Rights Commission and Amnesty International in separate petitions accused the Intelligence Response Team headed by the suspended police chief of illegally depleting the asset of the kidnap kingpin.

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But Uhumwangho, the IRT legal officer in a 131-paragraph affidavit submitted to the NBA-LPDC on June 30 this year said he diverted N3,075,300 generated from Ezenwa’s De-Ingrid Hotel and another property at Edingurgh, Enugu into his private account on the orders of Kyari.

The police prosecutor said the order that the funds be diverted into his personal Zenith Bank account was for “reasons best known” to Mr Kyari.

Uhumwangho also alleged that Kyari ordered a notorious cultist, Tochukwu Okeke, to obtain rents from Ezenwa’s properties on his behalf. Okeke is currently detained at the 82 Division of the Nigerian army over alleged ties with IPOB gunmen in the southeast.

The lawyer’s testimony followed a petition by a lawyer and human rights activist Justice Ijeoma who accused him of “conduct unbecoming of a legal practitioner”. Ijeoma in his petition to the NBA-LDPC also accused Uhumwangho of conniving with other officers to illegally convert Ezenwa’s properties.

Kyari had in a letter dated 25th January, 2019 claimed that the NHRC authorised him to recover money from the kidnap kingpin’s account and pay it in a private account while the matter was pending in court.

“The National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria (Presidential Panel on SARS Reforms) which sat in Abuja on 25th January 2019, directed the Legal Officer of IGP-IRT to recover money in possession of any person controlling the aforesaid properties and make them render an account.

“In view of the above-stated fact, you are hereby directed/ordered to recover any money therefrom and take possession and make sure it is properly kept and safe in your custody, because if paid into the Police account, it will be difficult to recover it and tender it before the court as the matter is still pending at the Honourable Federal High Court, Owerri Judicial Division. The court may make a demand for it in the nearest future,” Mr Kyari’s letter read.

The claim was, however, denied by sources from the NHRC panel which sat between- 14 and 26 January 2019.

Ezenwa, a former police corporal was killed on January 27, 2018, along Enugu-Owerri Expressway, while he journeyed with two of his cousins who were also alleged to be kidnappers.

The late kidnapper joined the police in 2009 and resigned on N47, 000 salary in November 2017.

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