Kyari was indicted by the FBI in a $1.1 million Internet scam allegedly carried out by an Instagram influencer, Abbas Ramon, popularly known as Hushpuppi and four others.

The PSC had earlier suspended Kyari with effect from July 31 based on the IGP’s recommendation and the action is pending the outcome of the police investigation.

PSC, in a statement by its spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, on Thursday informed that the panel is headed by the Director, Department of Police Discipline in the Commission, Tijani Mohammed, a lawyer.

The statement explained that the panel was “to gather and document relevant information on DCP Abba Kyari in view of his disciplinary matter and to analyze the information gathered and make appropriate recommendation/s to the commission”.

The panel, which has been inaugurated by the Permanent Secretary/ Secretary to the Commission, Alhaji Abubakar Ismaila, has started work while the commission awaits the report of the DIG Joseph Egbunike investigative panel on the matter.

The report of the in-house panel is expected to assist the Commission in making an informed decision when the police investigative panel report is submitted for the Commission’s consideration.

Meanwhile, the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali had set up the police investigative panel headed by Egbunike to look into the matter.

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In a statement by its Head of Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, the Commission informed that the decision was conveyed in a letter signed by Justice Clara Bata Ogunbiyi, a retired justice of the supreme court and honourable commissioner 1 in the commission for the commission’s chairman, Alhaji Musiliu Smith.

Kyari’s suspension, according to the PSC, took effect from July 31st, 2021 and would subsist pending the outcome of the investigation in respect of his indictment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)  of the United States.

In a related development, the Commission  also directed the Inspector General of Police to furnish it with information on further development on the matter for necessary further action.

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