Police Service Commission has ordered a fresh investigation into alleged Abba Kyari’s link with HushPuppi

Abbas Ramon a.k.a HushPuppi and the Police Intelligence Unit Boss, Abba Kyari

THE Police Service Commission has mandated the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to develop investigation concerning the association between the suspended past Boss of the Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, and a web trickster, Abbas Ramon, usually known as Hushpuppi.

The commission, it was learnt, gave the IG fourteen days to turn in the report which would be surveyed by the PSC Standing Committee on Discipline.

The order to the IG was spin-off of the exhortation from the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN.

A four-man Special Investigation Panel headed by the Deputy Inspector-General of Police accountable for the Force Criminal Investigations Department, Joseph Egbunike, had prior investigated Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police.

Kyari had been suspended in July 2021 for supposed contribution in a $1.1 million Internet misrepresentation purportedly executed by Hushpuppi and four others; AbdulRahman Juma (Abdul); Vincent Chibuzo (Kelly); Rukayat Fashola (Morayo); and Bolatito Agbabiaka (Bolamide).

The Federal Bureau of Investigation had affirmed that Hushpuppi paid $20,600 to two ledgers purportedly given by Kyari on January 20, 2020.

Kyari denied bad behavior.

NewsWay assembled on Wednesday that the AGF said the realities contained in the police investigation report were not sufficiently able to convict the DCP.

Malami was said to have informed the commission that the police investigation on Kyari was not water-tight and that more realities were expected to build up the connection between the ex-IRT leader and Hushpuppi, who is anticipating condemning in the wake of making a supplication deal manage the United States specialists.

In light of the AGF’s recommendation, the bonus was said to have requested that the IG do a further test into Kyari’s relationship with Hushpuppi.

A senior authority, who trusted in our journalist, expressed, “The guidance from the AGF is that the case needs further investigation; that the proof created on Abba Kyari was not to the point of indicting him regardless of the way that they have set up an at first sight body of evidence against him. In any case, the realities can’t convict him in the courtroom.

“Thus, the police report was returned and the IG was approached to set up an extraordinary board to check out the case. We have given them simply a brief time of about fourteen days to turn in their report.

“The last report is relied upon to get back to the standing panel which will audit and send proposals to the entire where a ultimate choice on Kyari will be taken.”

In the interim, representative, US Attorney Office for Central District of California, Thom Mrozek, has said Hushpuppi would be condemned on February 14.

As indicated by BBC Pidgin, Mrozek, notwithstanding, didn’t express the prison terms, which is relied upon to be somewhere in the range of 10 and 18 years.

“He might be exposed to expulsion from the United States once he finishes his jail sentence,” he said.