Sir: For about 18 months now, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Alhaji Kyari, has been in the Correctional Centre in Kuje, while being tried for various offences.

Nigerians may recall that before his arrest and detention, Kyari was a household name in the struggle to curb the menace of insecurity in Nigeria as a nation. He was seen as a rare national crime fighter, while many people still hold belief that he was undergoing persecution by some unscrupulous elements who felt he might have disrespected them and or undermined their interest.

Following a personal encounter had with him in prison, Kyari keeps wondering when and how good intentions and the appropriate execution of the same should be penalised without recourse to equity and rectitude.

He is perplexed how tough the monstrous corrupt interests are bent on fighting a resolute officer who stood his ground that perpetrators of evil and smugglers of illicit drugs must be brought to book.

In his days as a serving officer, he popularised the Intelligence Response Team (IRT), the Inspector General of Police Annex, operating basically as powerful body detecting and preempting crimes nationwide. They were answerable to the IGP only. I am a living witness to the impressive unmasking of assassination plots by hired gangs credited to Kyari-led IRT, including the demystification of the ferocious and notorious kidnap king, Evans; the successful rescue of several traditional leaders in the northern region; the capture of the terrible kidnap kingpin in the northern Nigeria of Kaduna State, who terrorised the state and the environs recklessly and the list is endless.

The more the poor majority populace are pulled out of poverty in Nigeria, the less crime records we have. The ultimate demise of this nation is the steadfast silence of the few upright citizens who behold the evils done in our nation and decides to continue to let the sleeping dog lie. The successful rebirth and recovery of Nigeria occurs the moment we rise to our able feet and confront the monster that has widely opened their ravenous mouth to devour our land. Why can’t we celebrate merit and performers of good deeds and denounce those who swore to humiliate us as a people?

An ugly situation where talented people with rare skills, potentials and competence are discouraged cannot continue to go unchecked in this country. Who chooses to travel through the unmapped ways of the jungles when the coast is clear to cover, unfettered? Who will shoot himself in the leg when the necessary battle rages if he is not that hopeless coward? The time has come for this Joseph to be released from dungeon so that he could occupy his place and salvage his dear nation from this hot fiery wave of biting insecurity!
Steve Obum Orajiaku.