Abba Kyari: Probe Panel Adjourns Interrogation Of Embattled Cop

Following Monday's interrogation of DCP Abba Kyari, the former Commander, Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), the under fire police officer will continue to face the Special Investigation Panel (SIP) at a latter date.

Kyari, AllNews understands, was grilled for four hours by the probe panel set up by Usman Alkali Baba, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) over his relationship with confessed fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi.

The interrogation by the SIP, headed by Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge Force Criminal Investigations Department, DIG Joseph Egbunike, held at Area 10 headquarters of FCID in Garki, Abuja.

Sources, according to Vanguard, disclosed that the interrogation, which is being held behind closed doors, commenced at about 2pm and continued till about 6pm before it was adjourned.

Kyari, who is currently on suspension, has been indicted by a United States District Court which issued an arrest warrant for him and is wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), to face changes of being an accomplice in California.

Before Monday’s interrogation, Kyari had appeared before the SIP on three occasions and had continued to insist on his innocence, saying he did nothing wrong.

Amid Kyari's denial, US officials said during interrogation, Hushpuppi disclosed that he gave Kyari money to arrest and jail “one of his rivals in Nigeria after a dispute over a $1.1 million scam on Qatari businesspeople.”