Correctional Service says Kyari is not under attack

By Paul Michael

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has refuted the claim by embattled and suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Abba Kyari, that his life was in danger in custody.

Kyari had on Thursday approached a Federal High Court for another bail plea.

Kyari and three of his co-defendants, through their counsel, urged Justice Emeka Nwite to admit them to bail because their lives in the Kuje Correctional Centre, where they are being remanded, were unsafe.

Report also emerged that Kyari was assaulted by some inmates but escaped death after offering them money.

Reacting to the development, Francis Enobore, the Service Public Relations Officer (SPRO), described the allegation that Kyari was attacked in custody as “false, reckless and mischievous.”

Enobore said the report was the handiwork of some jobless, cheap, and recognition-seeking charlatans masquerading as newsmen, who lack the intellectual capacity to interrogate what they conjure or hear before feeding the public.

He said, “That the author is completely oblivious of where and how the detention of a suspect originates, speaks volumes of his ineptitude and the much his story can be relied upon.

“For the record, Abba Kyari is one of the over 800 inmates in the location where he is being kept.

“However, notable individuals including ex-governors, ministers, senators and other celebrities of higher social status have passed through the same facility without any threat to their lives.”

He emphasized that Kyari was safe and sound and go about his daily routine like any other inmate unharmed.