A major intervention is coming the way of indicted super cop, Abba Kyari, over his relationship with alleged fraudster, Huspuppi.
Huspuppi has named Kyari in a $1.1m fraud, with the US government seeking to try him.
But a group of 31 volunteer lawyers drawn across all the 19 northern states and religions of the North have agreed to defend him.
Their spokesperson, Sunusi Bappah Salisu, in a statement said the gesture was in response to calls for support for Kyari by the Coalition of Northern Groups.
The lawyers, he said, had volunteered to render free legal services for the preservation of Kyari’s fundamental rights that might be potentially jeopardized by his alleged indictment by a court in the United States of America.
Salisu said they would critically review the procedures adopted by the FBI to get the US Court to indict Kyari on allegations of involvement in charges filed against a suspected fraudster, Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi.
He noted, “We would raise questions involving the possibility of breaches to Kyari’s fundamental rights entrenched in Articles 6 and 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Right which essentially state that every individual shall have the right to liberty and to the security of his person and every individual shall have the right to have his cause heard.
“Also, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.”
