Suspended super cop, Abba Kyari, has said his incarceration at Kuje prison has resulted in various criminal activities across the country, including the recent Kaduna-Abuja train bombing.
Kyari, who made the statement through his lawyer, Nureini Jimoh, to the Federal High Court in Abuja pleaded for his rejected bail application to be revisited.
He said his absence and that of his accused colleagues in the crime fighting arena had emboldened criminals to carry out various attacks in form of bombing and banditry, thereby increasing insecurity in the country.
Kyari stated, “Upon the incarceration of the applicants, criminality in the nation has risen up. The Kaduna train attack, Kaduna-Abuja road attack as well as Kaduna airport attack was a result of the incarceration of the applicants.
“The entire plan to incarcerate the applicants led to the criminal upsurge and other high level insecurity in the country. Since the incarceration of the applicants, the police have not recorded any level of success on the senseless attack(s) across the country.”
The court document further stated that the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police’s life and that of other accused persons were at risk as they share the correctional facility with criminals who are IPOB/ESN fighters, Onye army, terrorists from Kuje/Nyanya-Abuja bombing and more.
“At the centre, the applicants who were Head and deputy head of the Intelligence Response Team of the Nigeria Police Force met stiff resistance, attack and open threats to the lives of the applicants by series head of criminal gang that they had busted.
“There is no correctional centre that the criminals that have been arrested by the IRT under the headship of the applicant in furtherance of their constitutional and statutory duties as police officers cannot be found and there is a high likelihood of threat to the lives of the applicants,” it argued.