A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has fixed August 29 to deliver judgment on the extradition suit filed by the attorney general of the federation, Abubakar Malami, against suspended DCP Abba Kyari.
This is as the federal government has sought Mr Kyari’s extradition to the U.S. to answer a case over his alleged link with Hushpuppi’s internet fraud case.
Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date after counsel for the parties in the suit adopted their processes and presented their arguments in the matter.
In an application marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/249/2022, titled ‘Application for the Extradition of Abba Kyari to the U.S.’, dated March 1 and filed on March 2, the AGF is seeking the court’s approval to surrender him to the United States government.
Although Kyari’s lawyer, Nureni Jimoh (SAN) asked the court to refuse the extradition request on the ground that Kyari did not commit any crime to warrant his extradition to the United States of America.
Arguing, the Counsel to the Federal Government, Pius Akuta, urged the court to discountenance the arguments of the defendant.
He said that conditions precedent for extradition have been met by the American government with the filing of the charge against Kyari and a formal application that he be brought to America to establish if he is guilty or innocent in his indictment for internet fraud.
