The embattled Commander of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) at the Force Intelligence Bureau of the Nigerian Police Force, DCP Abba Kyari, is entangled in another startling trouble.
Abba Kyari has been on suspension from his duties since August, 2022, pending the outcome of investigations into his alleged connection with a popular fraudster Ramon Abbas “Hushpuppi”.
The embattled DCP has also been on the wanted list of the USA’ FBI.
Another wave of trouble hit Abba Kyari, Monday, 14th February, when Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over his alleged involvement in a 25kilograms Cocaine deal.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the Anti-narcotics Agency, Femi Babafemi, at a press briefing in Abuja, Monday, 14th February, said the Agency believes strongly that DCP Kyari is a member of a drug cartel that operates the Brazil-Ethiopia-Nigeria illicit drug pipeline.
Babafemi said NDLEA declared Abba Kyari wantef after all efforts to get him honour formal invitations for his interrogation failed.
The Anti-narcotics Agency spokesman said: “Even before the damning findings of the 2018 National Drug Use and Health Survey, Nigeria’s drug problem was getting close to epidemic proportion.
“And if anything, the arrests and seizures by NDLEA in the past 12 months is an indication that the country’s drug problem was grossly underestimated before President Muhammadu Buhari’s resolve to strengthen the NDLEA and the subsequent launch of offensive action by the Agency to clean the society of the menace.
“And in just 12 months, even the most cynical of Nigerians now agree that the country is really in a drug quagmire and therefore appreciates the relentless efforts of NDLEA operatives.
“Unfortunately, some law enforcement agents who should be partners in the pursuit of the Presidents mandate are at the forefront of breaking the law, as they aid and abet drug trafficking in the country.”
Babafemi said: “Today, we are forced to declare one of such law enforcement agents wanted in the person of suspended DCP Abba Kyari, the erstwhile Commander of Intelligence Response Team (IRT) at the Force Intelligence Bureau of the Nigerian Police Force.
“With the intelligence at our disposal, the Agency believes strongly that DCP 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.”
