A group of 31 lawyers from northern Nigeria on Wednesday
volunteered to render free legal services to the former commander of the
Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari.
Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, is facing
allegations of corruption levelled against him by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation in the United States for which he was suspended by the Police.
The spokesperson of the group, Sunusi Bappah Salisu, in a
statement said the volunteer lawyers were drawn across all the 19 northern
states and religions.
According to him, the pro bono 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 said, “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,” he added.
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