Abba Kyari, a former commander of the Intelligence Response Team and suspended deputy commissioner of police, has disputed ownership of 14 items and money that was purportedly discovered in bank accounts.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday connected Abba Kyari to a mall, a housing development, a polo field, lands, farmland, and enormous quantities of money in some bank accounts.
Abba Kyari responded in a statement provided by his attorney, Hamza Dan Tani, claiming that the NDLEA had fabricated the reports in order to further damage his reputation.
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He asserted that the NDLEA has turned to cheap blackmail because their legal battle with Abba Kyari and four other people is not going well for them.
Abba Kyari’s attorney went on to say that there were N2.8 million in his UBA account, which he had only used for the past eight years, as well as N350,000 and 7,000 pounds in GTB that had been saved for a very long time.
Others were N200,000 in Access Bank and Sterling Bank accounts that had not been used for more than eight years.
Tani said, “They expected the court case to go smoothly in their favour the way their sponsored media trials went viral between February to April 2022. They failed to understand that unlike media trials, courts need real evidence and facts which NDLEA don’t have in this case.
“By all means, out of desperation, again, NDLEA wanted to spoil Abba Kyari’s name at all cost because they know that all their initial efforts have failed as overwhelming majority of good Nigerians who want peace and security for the Nation are still behind Abba Kyari despite the set up by NDLEA against Abba Kyari in January 2022, which was followed by massive sponsored media trial earlier this year.
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“Again, NDLEA is sponsoring fabricated lies, untrue stories, and flimsy allegations, trumped-up and false charges in court without justification against Abba Kyari.”
He recalled that on August 29, 2022, Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja dismissed an application for extradition of DCP Abba Kyari to America made by the Attorney-General of the Federation.
Tani continued that despite the fact that the case was already in front of the Federal High Court in Maiduguri and that there was no proof connecting Abba Kyari to “any of those properties or any link to any drug money, stealing government money, or any proceed of any crime,” the NDLEA filed another 24 count charge against DCP Abba Kyari on August 30 just to mislead the public and damage his reputation.
He referred to all charges made by NDLEA regarding money and property belonging to Abba Kyari as false, inaccurate, and lying.
The businesspeople who own the properties and provided their documentation, according to Tani, have already brought legal actions against NDLEA in the Federal High Court Maiduguri.
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In April 2022, he claimed that the NDLEA marked the homes of innocent individuals in Maiduguri and Abuja before breaking the story to the media, which quickly went viral.
Tani claimed that the agency is conducting a malicious media trial without having any evidence to present in court. He added that if the NDLEA has any evidence connecting Abba Kyari to any of those properties aside from his farmland and one house, they should make it immediately available to the public.
The statement reads: “These whole properties matter is before Federal High Court in Maiduguri but NDLEA is still desperate by trying to link Abba Kyari without any evidence to financial crimes and properties that do not belong to him, neither is there one kobo of drug money or any crime money that is linked to Abba Kyari in any way.
“We challenge NDLEA to release the evidence to the public immediately if any. The whole thing is only aimed at media trials as they have no evidence to show to the court. If they have the evidence, let them release it to the media. This is how all their cases will crumble in the courts since their aim is only a media trial.
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“For the records, the total money in Abba Kyari’s account is N2.8 million in his UBA account, the only account he has been using for the past eight years, 7,000 pounds in GTB kept over eight years ago and N350,000 in GTB kept many years ago.
“Less than N200,000 in Sterling Bank and Access Bank Account not in use for over eight years. These are all the money that DCP Abba Kyari has in his accounts, which he has declared and the NDLEA should immediately release all Abba Kyari’s account statements to the public if what they are saying is true.”
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