The indictment and request for the extradition of DCP Abba Kyari by the FBI is taking new twist as a northern group is rallying support for the embattled police chief. The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum under the leadership of Yerima Shettima has thrown its eight behind DCP Abba Kyari stating that Nigeria is a sovereign state and DCP Abba Kyari cannot be intimidated. In a press statement released by the group its president also warned that nothing must happen to DCP Kyari.
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The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has taken a swipe on the American Court that allegedly ordered for the arrest of DCP Abba Kyari, while also dismissing what it described as “the attempted intimidation of a police officer right inside his independent fatherland”.
In a media release signed by the group’s National President, Alhaji Yerima Shettima sounded a note of warning that “nothing must happen to him( DCP Kyari”.
The group rejected the purported plan to arrest DCP Kyari, describing the move by the FBI as “totally unacceptable, a slap on the sensibility of our compatriots and a ridicule on one of our finest crack detectives”.
The group said it would keep a tap on the happenings in the matter, stressing that there was no justification for “singling out one of Nigeria’s most effective and efficient police officers for castigation”.
The AYCF, in the statement, urged “all Nigerians who are truly patriotic to stand behind a man who has made an unrivalled mark on the sands of time by diligently serving his fatherland.”
They then called on relevant stakeholders in the country, especially civil society organizations to “rally round this officer who risked his life in multiple operations across Nigeria, a fact proved many times through BBC news coverage of such operations”.
” While we are conscious of our sovereignty as a nation, we demand justice for a man with unrivaled records of detective capabilities in the recent history of Nigeria”, the AYCF stressed.
