Why NDLEA Can’t Try Me Over Drug Trafficking Charge, Abba Kyari Tells Court

REVEALED: How Abba Kyari Negotiated Release of 25kg Cocaine

by Victor Ndubuisi
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DCP Abba Kyari, the suspended Head of the Intelligence Response Team, was apprehended in a narcotics deal, according to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

At a news conference in Abuja on Monday, NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi said Kyari was a member of a narcotics gang that runs the Brazil-Ethiopia-Nigeria illicit drug pipeline.

In January 2022, Kyari allegedly contacted an Agency officer and attempted to close a transaction, according to Babafemi.

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“Let me give you a rundown of what happened,” he said. The drama began on Friday, January 21, 2022, at 2:12 p.m., when DCP Kyari dialed one of the NDLEA officials in Abuja.

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When the officer answered the phone two minutes later, Kyari informed him that he was coming to meet him after the Juma’at service to address an operational concern.

“He (Kyari) showed up at the agreed-upon meeting location with the officer and got right to the point.
This was it: his crew had caught and apprehended some drug traffickers who had entered the nation from Ethiopia with 25 kilograms of cocaine, according to him.

“He offered a drug transaction in which he and his crew would take 15 kilograms of cocaine and leave 10 kilograms for the prosecution of individuals apprehended in Enugu with the illicit narcotic.”

Meanwhile, the stolen cocaine will be replaced with a 15-kilogram dummy. He requested that the NDLEA officer urge personnel from the FCT Command to join in.

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“By 11:05 a.m. on Monday, January 24, after the Agency had given the officer permission to play along, he and Kyari had started a WhatsApp call that would last the rest of the day.”
The cop expressed “their” desire to participate in 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.

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“He (Kyari) 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 (Kyari) 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.

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“The next day January 25, Kyari offered to send his younger brother to deliver the payment while his men deliver the suspects, but our officer turned down the suggestion, insisting he would rather deal with him in person and was therefore prepared to wait for him to return from Lagos.

“And by 5: 23 pm, Kyari was in Abuja and met with the officer at the same rendezvous where they had the first meeting. In their discussion, he disclosed how his team received the information from a double-crosser who betrayed the traffickers to him, showing a sordid connection between law enforcement agents and the drug underworld; he narrated how acting on the tip-off, his team departed Abuja to Enugu and arrested the traffickers, removed part of the consignment on his instruction and replaced same with dummies.

“He (Kyari) also indicated how to identify the remnant of the original cocaine that would be delivered to NDLEA, five original packages marked with red dots. The reason for this was to avoid the dummies being subjected to test. He forwarded a picture of the marked original cocaine package. According to the plan, once the 5kg cocaine has been tested in the presence of the suspects and confirmed positive, there would be no need to test the remaining ones, being dummies.

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“He (Kyari) also brought with him the money from the sale of the 5kg share of the NDLEA team, a total of $61, 400. Our officer, however, preferred to take the money inside his car. Well, the car was wired with sound and video recorders. And the moment was documented, part of which I will play for you at the end of this briefing.

“DCP Abba Kyari was invited by NDLEA for debriefing on Thursday February 10 through two main channels because there is a whole lot of questions begging for answers. The invitation was legitimate and formal according to our protocol. But up till the close of office hours on Friday, February 11, he refused to respond. Up till this moment, he hasn’t responded.

“Having failed to honour the official invitation, NDLEA has no option but to declare DCP Abba Kyari of the Nigerian Police WANTED, right from this very moment.”

The Federal Bureau of Investigation accused Kyari in 2021 for his alleged participation in a $1 million scam reportedly committed by alleged international Internet fraudster Ramon Abbas, alias, Hushpuppi, and five others, according to Anaedoonline.ng.

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Hushpuppi also paid the police officer N8m ($20,600) for the arrest and custody of a “co-conspirator,” Chibuzo Vincent, according to FBI Special Agent Andrew Innocenti, who claimed he collected voice calls and WhatsApp discussions between Kyari and Hushpuppi.

The FBI had been directed by the US Attorney’s Office in the Central District of California to arrest Kyari, but the IGP and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), had evasively shielded Kyari till now.

 

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