Thirty-one lawyers have thrown their weight behind Abba Kyari, the former commander of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team.
The lawyers on Wednesday volunteered to render free legal services to Kyari currently facing allegations of corruption levelled against him by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States.
The spokesperson of the lawyers, Sunusi Bappah Salisu, in a statement said they volunteered to render free legal services for the preservation of Kyari’s fundamental rights.
He said the lawyers, who were drawn across all the 19 northern states and religions, also responded to the calls for support for Kyari by the Coalition of Northern Groups.
He added that the lawyers 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.”
