*Suspended police chief, others taken to custody after being linked to drug deals
*How Presidency forced IG to release him to anti-drug agency.

There were strong indications last night that suspended police chief Abba Kyari, taken into National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) custody yesterday, will be extradited to the United States after his probe for an illicit drug deal.

Sources said the Federal Government had concluded plans with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) to hand over the deputy commissioner of police, who is wanted for taking bribe from suspected celebrity internet fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, alias Hushpuppi, from a $1.1million loot.

It was also learnt that the police authorities delayed action on Kyari for four days until the Presidency directed Inspector-General Baba Usman to release him to the NDLEA.

Shortly before he was released to the anti-drug agency alongside four other police officers indicted for the same misdemeanour, the NDLEA had declared Kyari wanted after announcing his involvement with drugs and releasing a video of his attempt to bribe operatives to the public.

Sources said President Muhammadu Buhari received a report on Kyari from the Chairman of the NDLEA, Gen. Buba Marwa.

The other suspects taken into custody are Sunday Ubuah, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP); Bawa James, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP); Inspector Simon Agrigba and Inspector John Nuhu.

According to a top source in the presidency, the Federal Government was already finalising the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) with the U.S. on Kyari’s extradition.

A Presidency source said: “The Federal Government has made up its mind to extradite Kyari when the NDLEA is done with him. There is already an ongoing talk between Nigeria and the United States.

“Already, the US has forwarded indictment documents and some evidence to the Federal Government. It claimed that there is a prima facie case against Kyari. The arrest of the top police cop has confirmed the suspicion of the USA.

“The final stage is the invocation of the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) and Kyari will be extradited to the United States for interrogation and trial.”

Another source said: “President Buhari was properly briefed by Gen. Marwa before the agency released its fact-sheet and video clip to the public.

“It was after the briefing that the agency set the machinery in motion to arrest Kyari and four others. Two drug suspects linked with the Kyari group are already in the agency’s custody.

“The interrogation of the five police officers will begin on Tuesday (today) alongside the two drug traffickers in NDLEA’s net.

“Both the traffickers and the police officers will have the opportunity to face detectives on how Kyari became an intermediary.

“It is expected that this action may lead to the unearthing of the drug cartel in the country.”

How presidency intervened

A source said: “Since last week, the NDLEA requested the release of Kyari and four other officers by the police. They were to be handed over on Thursday but no action was taken.

“The agency waited on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and till the early hours of Monday without any communication from the police.

“When the police were foot-dragging, the agency addressed the press on the facts and video clip at its disposal. NDLEA also declared Kyari wanted.

“The presidency immediately intervened and ordered the Inspector-General of Police to arrest and transfer the suspects to NDLEA.”

A statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy of NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi, said justice will take its full course.

The statement said: “Few hours after he was declared wanted by the NDLEA over his involvement in a 25 kilograms cocaine deal, the Nigerian Police Force has handed over Kyari…to the anti-narcotic agency.

“Five of the wanted suspects…were driven into the National Headquarters of NDLEA in Abuja at about 5pm on Monday to formally hand them over for interrogation and further investigation.

“The agency wishes to assure that no stone will be left unturned to ensure that all suspects already in custody and those that may still be indicted in the course of the investigation will face the full weight of the law at the end of the ongoing probe.”

‘Why NDLEA declared Kyari wanted’

At a briefing on why Kyari was wanted, Babafemi said the NDLEA believed “strongly” that the suspended officer was “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”.

He said Kyari, despite being suspended, led a team that “intercepted” some traffickers.

Giving details of Kyari’s involvement, the spokesman said: “The saga started on Friday, January 21, 2022, when DCP Kyari initiated a call to one of the NDLEA officers in Abuja at 2:12 pm.

“When the officer returned the call two minutes later, Kyari informed him he was coming to see him, to discuss an operational matter after the Juma’at service.

“He appeared at the agreed venue of the meeting with the officer and went straight to the crux of the matter.

“This was it: his team had intercepted and arrested some traffickers that came into the country from Ethiopia with, according to him, 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.”

The spokesman said it was reminiscent of a recent case in which a drug kingpin flew from Brazil to negotiate the release of a 27.95 kg shipment of cocaine intercepted at the airport, offering a bribe of $24, 500 to an officer, who refused it.

“By 11: 05 am on Monday, January 24, after the agency gave the officer the green light to play along, he and Kyari began a WhatsApp call for the rest of the day. The officer conveyed ‘their’ 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.”


Police point finger at NDLEA

The police accused NDLEA officers at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport of aiding drug trafficking.

Force spokesman, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said the IGP ordered Kyari’s and the others’ arrest following “pieces of information received from the leadership of the NDLEA on 10th February 2022”.

He said in a statement: “In line with standard administrative 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 the 19th of January, 2022 upon their arrival from Addis Ababa aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight ET917.

“The arrest led to the recovery of a 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).

“Although the case and the two suspects were subsequently transferred to the NDLEA on the 25th January, 2022, the findings of the in-house investigation ordered by the Inspector General of Police established reasonable grounds for strong suspicion that the IRT officers involved in the operation could have been involved in some underhand and unprofessional dealings as well as official corruption which compromised ethical standards in their dealings with the suspects and exhibits recovered.

“Beyond this, the Police investigation also established that the international narcotics cartel involved in this case have strong ties with some officers of the NDLEA at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu who are on their payroll.

“The two arrested drug couriers confirmed that the modus is for the transnational drug barons to conspire with the NDLEA officers on duty and send them their pre-boarding photographs for identification, seamless clearance, and unhindered passage out of the airport with the narcotics being trafficked.

“The two arrested drug couriers also confirmed that they have been enjoying this relationship with the NDLEA officers at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport since 2021 and had in this instant case of 19th January, 2022, been identified and cleared by the NDLEA officers as customary, having received their pre-departure photographs and other details prior to their arrival in Enugu, and were on their way out with the narcotics when they were apprehended by the Police.”

Police indict Kyari

The police said the panel’s findings implicated Kyari.

The statement added: “The Police investigations report also indicted DCP Abba Kyari, who had been on suspension for his alleged involvement in a different fraud case being investigated by the FBI, for complicity in the allegation of official corruption, tampering with narcotics exhibit and sundry unprofessional conducts that negate the standard administrative and investigative protocols of the Force as well as extant criminal laws.

“It is to be emphasised that DCP Abba Kyari’s involvement in these allegations occurred while his suspension from service was subsisting.

“On the strength of the findings of the in-house police investigation panel, the Inspector-General of Police has ordered the immediate arrest and transfer of all the indicted police officers to the NDLEA authorities for conclusive investigation, while appropriate disciplinary actions are also being initiated against them by the Force leadership.

“The concerned officers include DCP Abba Kyari, ACP Sunday Ubuah, ASP Bawa James, ASP John Umoru (at large), Inspr. Simon Agrigba and John Nuhu. They have all been, accordingly, handed over to the NDLEA authorities.”

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Naija is truly a seasonal movie that is so predictable. Most of us saw through d stage-managing sudden story of Abba Kyari and drug cartels and quite early predicted that it's all smokescreen aimed at delaying d impending extradition of Mr Super Cop. In d course of acting this movie they have shot themselves on d foot as we now know what we never knew before now that d supposedly suspended officer was actually on d field with his retinue of boys as if nothing happened. Nigeria is a comedy. From end of probe to trial and d rest is history. They are doing everything possible to keep Abba Kyari within d territory of d most fantastically corrupt contraption, paint him as a criminal here so that he will stand trial here knowing that even upon conviction here he can even still be leading his troops from detention. In saner climes d IG of Police under whose office d IG IRT was domiciled should be on a hot seat now and be explaining why d disgraced and suspended bad guy was still in "active" service.

This is what they ought to have done since last year that they are doing now. Why was the government desperately trying to exonerate Abba Kyari in the first place?

Good

The whole story tells you Abba Kyari was never really suspended as they made the public to believe.

Nigerians make una get sense o, what is special about Abba kyari that presidency is always involved in?

No be the same NDLEA dey "intercept" drug cartels bigger than this case and nobody go get persecution for the big names behind it.

After presidency and police have exhausted all the excuses they have from extraditing him they have hurriedly brought NDLEA with overnight cooked scam

The reality is FBI would never get hold on kyari because No be investigation dem wan do, Na "long sentence" dem go give am and you gullible Nigerians would be happy but kyari go return to his house just like he returned to his posts after the so called police suspension

And FBI can't extradite someone serving jail sentence, it's like arresting dead body

Na envy of obi cubana dey make many people buy this scam but Las Las your eye would open that cubana no go dey involved at all for the case.

You know why?

If he involve that means he must get "jail sentence" with kyari too, but cubana Na public figure how you want take fake him jail sentence when everyone would be seeing him at club every week.

So cubana no go dey involved, only kyari go "chop this jail time" for media, this is how you would know it's a scam

lol drug case weh dem fit drag for more dan 10 years to 15 u people beta getat from here....

Na lie, Presidency no force anything.... D same Presidency dat didn't question why d probe in yhe Hushpuppi link is taking long is d same one that "forced" him to be released to NDLEA.. Was he in Police custody in the first place

Abba kyari might be guilty in all ramification. But extraditing him to Usa is a capital NO, I don't believe any sane government in the world will hand over her citizen to another nation for punishment.

When the drug case is closed, another case will come out, thereby keeping him in Nigeria. Nigeria government is not only corrupt by mouth but by action....

Many instagram accounts no dey active again since yesterday.the ones wey still dey active done delete many videos and pics.

You can only run run pass Terry G, when you run mad
This super-cop is not very smart as we thought. For drug dealers to beat all the airport security with 25k of drugs, and you think you can just boycott them easily like that. Those dealers are powerful cartels and have strong links in government, not just in Nigeria but in all the countries they operate

Abba Kyari:

Ok

Another drama to fustrate his extradition to the USA..

He can't be extradited

Una sure say no bi tactics to delay the extradition be dis NDLA probe?

Ugbo epepe

Don hushkyari . Super crime enabler . Kyari, the super criminal

I wish the IGP can tell Nigerians how, under his watch, a suspended officer was still able to command his subordinate to the extent of taking part in an illicit drug push,he should explain to Nigerians the reason behind his reluctance to release this man to the FBI.

Jek

Truth is gradually coming out

He will be extradited When the NDLEA is done with him

The whole charade was to ensure the NDLEA gets to him first and he won't be extradited.

donbachi:
Many instagram accounts no dey active again since yesterday.the ones wey still dey active done delete many videos and pics.

I dunno why this comment got me rolling with laughter.

Abba kyari got corrupted by power.
However it's obvious that keeping the man is a danger and Alakoba to some top officials and politicians. They quickly want to get rid off him to mop off the dirty things they have used him to do.
Waiting to see how the buffoon called Berekete will respond to this

MANDIPUTIN:
*Suspended police chief, others taken to custody after being linked to drug deals
*How Presidency forced IG to release him to anti-drug agency.



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Supercop is now a rogue. Inside life

The police even waited for the presidency to give order before handing over a criminal druggie cop to ndlea.


Weak institutions

Season 2: Épisode 3

Sometimes it is best to do your things off caméra and social media.

Scratch it - most times.

Free flight for kyari. Enjoy your stay at the Guantanamo with hush puppy.