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The recent troubles of Abba Kyari, a one-time celebrated super cop who is now in the net of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), is an indictment on the Nigerian Police Force that pronounced his suspension six months earlier.

POLITICS NIGERIA recalls how the deputy commissioner of police and head of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) was in August 2021 suspended by the Police Service Commission (PSC) after a U.S. court fingered him as a conspirator in a $1.1 million fraudulent deal against a Qatari businessman.

The FBI investigators established a relationship between Mr Kyari and Ramon Abbas, a popular Internet fraudster standing trial also nicknamed "Hushpuppi".

The PSC said Mr Kyari’s suspension was based on the recommendation of Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba. The police chief recommended the suspension as a temporary measure while an investigation into the matter continues.

According to the PSC spokesperson, Ikechukwu Ani, Kyari was relieved of all his duties pending the outcome of the investigation in respect of his indictment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States.

Kyari, however, denied any wrongdoing even though he itted to having facilitated some 'tailoring' works for the suspected fraudster.

Fresh Troubles/Cocaine Trafficking

While calls for the extradition of the embattled officer to the U.S. have continued to gain momentum on social media, he was enmeshed in another scandal on Monday.

Kyari and his team were declared wanted by the NDLEA for their involvement in a multimillion Naira drug deal.

At the Monday briefing in Abuja, the NDLEA spokesman said the embattled Kyari was declared wanted over his involvement in a 25kgs Cocaine deal. He said that the NDLEA took the decision after all efforts to get Kyari to honour formal invitations for his interrogation failed.

He lamented that those who are supposed to current efforts to stem the tide of illicit drug trafficking and abuse are themselves neck-deep in the menace.

“With the intelligence at our disposal, the agency believes strongly that D Kyari is a member of a drug cartel that operates the Brazil-Ethiopia-Nigeria illicit drug pipeline, and he needs to answer questions that crop up in an ongoing drug case in which he is the principal actor."

“His failure to cooperate forced the hand of the Agency and that is the reason for this press briefing,” Babafemi said.

Meanwhile, before the close of business on Monday, the police arrested Kyari and turned him in at the NDLEA FCT command.

Timeline: Police indictment

Checks by POLITICS NIGERIA have revealed that despite the fact that Kyari was on suspension, he was still involved in the activities of the police force. According to the NDLEA, on January 21, 2022, Kyari initiated a call to one of the NDLEA officers in Abuja and approached him with a deal.

The embattled cop said his team had intercepted and arrested some traffickers that came into the country from Ethiopia with 25kg of cocaine.

"He proposed a drug deal whereby he and his team are to take 15kg of the cocaine and leave 10kg for the prosecution of the suspects arrested with the illicit drug in Enugu. In the meantime, the purloined cocaine will be replaced with a dummy worth 15kg. He asked the NDLEA officer to persuade men of the FCT Command to play along as well." Babafemi told journalists.

On January 24, the NDLEA officer and Kyari began a WhatsApp call for the rest of the day and conveyed his willingness to play the game.

"At this point, Kyari disclosed that the 15kg (already taken out) was shared between the informants that provided information for the seizure and he and his men of the IRT of the Nigerian Police. According to him, the informants were given 7kg while his team took 8kg which was already sold. He then offered to pay the NDLEA team (that is the officer and the FCT commander) by selling, on their behalf, half of the remaining 10kg, thereby further reducing the original cocaine for the prosecution to just 5kg."

"At N7m per kilogram, the proceed from the 5kg would amount to N35m, at the exchange rate of N570 per dollar being the black market rate for the day, January 24, 2022. In effect, he would be delivering $61, 400 to the NDLEA team. He put pressure on our officer to wrap up the arrangement with the commander of the FCT Command to take custody of the drug and suspects from his men who were on ground in Abuja. At the time, he was speaking from Lagos, where he allegedly travelled for private business."

However, rather than address the question of how Kyari defied the PSC suspension to perpetrate the drug crime, the Police Headquarters said that some NDLEA officials who were reportedly involved in the drug deal should also be arrested.

The Deputy Force Public Relations Officer (DFPRO), Olumuyiwa Adejobi, after confirming Kyari’s involvement, said in a statement in Abuja that some NDLEA officials were allegedly involved in the drug deal.

He said that the police had carried out discreet investigation when it received a request from the NDLEA on February 10.

"In line with standard istrative procedure of the Force, the Inspector General of Police ordered a high-level, discreet, and in-house investigation into the allegations. The interim investigations report revealed that two international drug couriers identified as Chibunna Patrick Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus, both males, were arrested at Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, on Jan. 19."

“The suspects were arrested upon their arrival from Addis Ababa aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight ET917."

“The arrest led to the recovery of substantial quantity of powdery substance suspected to be cocaine from the two narcotic couriers."

“The operation which was intelligence-driven, was undertaken by a Unit of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT),” he said.

Corruption

Many Nigerians have said that the fact that Kyari was still in the scheme of things despite his suspension exemplifies an alleged corruption endemic in the police force.

"As a suspended Officer, how did Kyari gain access to seized cocaine? What is the Police not telling us?," Henry Shield, a good governance advocate asked rhetorically.

Also, human rights lawyer, Festus Ogun, stated that the saga further exposed the rot in the system.

"Kyari's continuous control of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) despite his suspension is deeply scandalous, indicting and shameful. It truly exposed the rot in our system and the insincerity of the authorities to diligently investigate the allegations against him."

https://politicsnigeria.com/ndlea-bust-police-faces-scrutiny-over-abba-kyaris-defiance-of-psc-suspension/

Abba "El Chapo" kyari.
Maybe because he wanted to take the larger chunk, that was why NDLEA exposed him. Because they also have a way of "distributing" the siezed drugs in their custody.

Every institution in Nigeria is corrupt, you can't blame them. It's the system the "founding fathers" laid down.

If you don't want to be corrupt, you would just die for corporal or sergeant rank dey collect 64k per month In this economy.

By the way, no one is extraditing kyari, the story would die down/ he can't be extradited.

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The fundamental FLAW in how IGP's office operates the IRT, STS, SARS, etc across the country is the free hands given them to do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to keep crime rate low in order to protect IGP's job. Thus, abuses were condoned. Gradually, the heads of these SPECIAL squads began to make financial returns to key officers to hold on to their twisted independence and positions. Then their power grew and so was their level of impunity and corruption.

Recall that in the heat of EndSars protests, the order of then IGP was flatly ignored by SARS officers across Nigeria to the surprise of Nigerians. Look, every top police officer knew that Abba Kyari is criminal but they were afraid of his influence even in the underworld. Even extraditing him US will cause serious image damage for Nigeria if Abba Kyari DECIDES to sing. The situation is like 'compost manure' dump.

The problem is deep but not beyond solution.

Na today?

Akali IGP of police should be fired now the man is corrupted like kyari

Pls share all the ill gotten wealth he has made to the masses Biko. Stop making his name popular or else he might also contest for this coming presidency

The Npf needs to be properly investigated, I despised them more they very day I read about Awkuzu sars and my flatmate then attested to the awkuzu sars CO’s ruthlessness and they looked away from the crimes that man committed, the IG should also be detained Alkaline abi Acid or whatever he calls himself, how come someone that was suspended is still in total control of the IRT
Abba El Chapo Kyari should be cooling off in jail

Na so.
When they say that good MUST triumph over evil no matter the time it takes and the people involved, people don't understand what that means. It's playing before our eyes.

Good over evil anytime anyway will always win.
People's movement will always be the only movement on earth.

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The IGP is culpable in all these mess. In a country that things are properly done, the IGP should have tendered his resignation asap. This is how low institutions of governance have become under Buhari.


Where is Wadume?

Season film

All these nonsense is to prevent him from being extradited to the US to do his time

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Abba is very crooked and deceptive. He is only a reflection of the larger society!

ok

Something is seriously fishy truly

A country gone to the dogs

Party don set. Heads to roll. We dey watch.

Right om

Who wan dey scrutinize police for Nigeria?

Scripts well written

Omo !!! The corruption in our Nigerian police force is the root cause of insecurity in NIGERIA.

Kyari trending back to back.. the pee poo Lord go rest small today

We are watching

Nigerians are watching

If our police institution can't be sanitised ,let's just forget about the country as a whole. Hopefully this marks the beginning of getting Naija back on track. #Hopelesshope

You said it all

temmypotter:
Season film

All these nonsense is to prevent him from being extradited to the US to do his time

Super Gangster Cop....

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NPF na scam

Yeah

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Buhari the worse among the worse

Everywhere has been bastardised

This has put whatever anti corruption fight of this istration

We have being led to a new low under the istration of the self acclaimed Mr integrity.