By Emmanuel Nduka
Suspended and detained police officer Abba Kyari, has suggested that terrorists had the impetus to bomb an Abuja-Kaduna train because of his arrest and continued detention at the Kuje maximum prison.
Kyari made the statement through his lawyer Nureini Jimoh, while praying the Federal High Court in Abuja to review his bail application that was initially rejected.
He said insecurity in Nigeria has spiralled ever since his arrest, adding that failure of the police to apprehend the bandits responsible for the attack was hinged largely on his detention.
He added that security officials were incapable of functioning efficiently without his professional input.
“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,” part of the statement read.
While pleading to be granted bail, Kyari said his life and that of his accomplices were at risk, sharing the correctional facility with many criminals that they put in jail.
“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 bursted.
“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,” his lawyer added.
