Kyari Directed Me To Deposit The Proceeds Of Hotel Owned By The Kidnap Kingpin Into My Bank Account-Police Attorney

Nosa Uhumwangho, a lawyer affiliated to the Inspector Generally of Police Intelligence Response Team (IGP-IRT), has recounted how the embattled 'Super Cop,' Abba Kyari, forced him to deposit the proceeds from a hotel owned by an alleged kidnapping kingpin into his account.

On Wednesday, Uhumwangho testified before the Nigerian Bar Association's Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC).According to the lawyer, Kyari instructed him to deposit N3, 075, 300 from the De-English Hotel in Enugu and another property at 21, Edinburgh Street owned by late Collins Ezenwa, commonly known as E-Money, an alleged kidnapper, into his (Uhumwangho's) bank.

However, in a 131-paragraph statement presented to the NBA's LPDC on 30 June 2021 and obtained by Sahara Reporters, Uhumwangho stated that Kyari had authorized him to deposit the money into his Zenith Bank personal account for "reasons best known to them."In the document, the lawyer further alleged that Kyari's boys had earlier instructed Tochukwu Okeke, a known cult member, to collect rents from late Ezenwa's properties on his behalf.

Okeke is currently being held at the Nigerian army's 82 Division for allegedly sponsoring members of the Indigenous People of Biafra in the southeast.

Okeke had claimed he was paying 2 million US dollars of restitution to late Ezenwa's gang following the enlistment in 2016 and refused to appear before the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) panel on investigating SARS activities.

A lawyer and human rights activist, Justice Ijeoma, hauled Uhumwangho to the NBA's Disciplinary Committee because of his "unresponsibility with a lawyer."Ijeoma claimed in his NBA-LDPC request that Uhumagho had committed a criminal transformation of his client's assets in conjunction with other police officials connected to the IGP-IRT inspector-general police response teams.

Uhumagho in his personal account under cross exams by Max Ogar, the lead lawyer of Ijoma, on the basis of Abba Kyari's boss's guidance.In a letter from Sahara Reporters dated 28 January 2019, Abba Kyari wrote: 'Abba Kyari sent a letter to the Legal Officer of IGP-IRT in Abuja to collect the money owned by a controlling person for the properties mentioned above and to make them report.

Sources from the NHRC panel, which met between the 14th and 26th of January 2019, denied approving Kyari to collect any money on late Ezenwa's property and deposit it in a private account.

Amnesty International and the National Human Rights Commission accused Kyari in 2018 of illegally depleting the assets of Collins Ezenwa, who was wrongfully executed by SARS in Owerri, Imo State.

Ezenwa's wife told the NHRC panel that Kyari and his crew took money from her late husband's bank account, seized his automobiles for personal use, and pocketed millions in hotel and property revenue.

In an October 2018 petition to the then-Inspector-General, Ibrahim Idris, the Nigerian Human Rights Commission claimed that the IRT, directed by Abba Kyari, a deputy police commissioner, had exhausted the assets of Collins Ezenwa, a suspected kidnapper who was gunned down in January 2018.

Ezenwa, according to Kyari, was an infamous kidnapper who committed unfathomable crimes before being slain.Imo State police accused Ezenwa, a former police corporal, of running a network of deadly kidnappers. He was slain during a gunfight on the Enugu-Owerri Expressway.

Kyari and his associates are reported to have taken over Ezenwa's multibillion-naira estates.A hotel in Enugu associated to Ezenwa was valued at N220,000,000. According to the NHRC petition, he also owned two duplexes and eight blocks of apartments for a total of N180 million.

Before resigning as a police corporal, the victim owned a fleet of exotic vehicles. Other properties of Ezenwa have been discovered in the states of Imo and Abia, putting his worth in the billions.

Source: Sahara reporters.