NDLEA declares suspended DCP Abba Kyari wanted

The body assigned with the supervision of drugs, The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has today declared the already suspended head of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Abba Kyari, wanted for alleged drug trafficking.

The NDLEA said investigation has exposed that Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, is a member of drug syndicate which operates all over the world.

The spokesperson of the NDLEA, in person of Femi Babafemi, disclosed this during a news briefing on Monday.

He said it was awful that some agents of law who should be partners in the pursuit of the mandate of fighting drug abuse are at the forefront of breaking the law aidding and abetting drug trafficking in the country.

Babafemi stated that Kyari was invited by NDLEA for debriefing on Thursday February 10 but up till the close of office hours on Friday, February 11, the suspended policeman was yet to respond.

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