By Atinuke Alao
For the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, reprieve came on Thursday after an Abuja Federal High Court discharged and acquitted him of non-declaration of assets.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) had dragged Kyari before Justice James Omotosho of the court on a 23-count charge for failure to declare his assets as a public officer.
In his judgement, Justice Omotosho Omotosho held that the anti-narcotics agency failed to provide sufficient evidence to prove the allegations against the embattled police officer and his two brothers, who were also accused of swearing false affidavits to conceal the origin of certain property.
The judge held that the prosecution did not tender credible documents linking Kyari to landed property in Fountain Estate, Kasana, said to belong to Ramatu Kyari, or to property located on Linda Choko Road in Asokoro and in Maiduguri, Borno State.
He noted that ownership of landed property could be established through traditional history, title documents, acts of possession, or possession via connection, none of which the prosecution presented.
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