Just in: NDLEA files eight-count charge against DCP Kyari, six others

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Thursday filed an eight-count criminal charge against the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari and six others over alleged drug trafficking before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

It named other defendants in the charge marked FHC/ABJ/57/2022 as four members of the Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT, ACP Sunday J. Ubia, ASP Bawa James, Insp. Simon Agirigba and Inspector John Nuhu, as well as two alleged drug traffickers arrested at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu, Chibunna Patrick Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus Ezenwanne.

The NDLEA, in the charge it filed through a team of lawyers led by its Director, Prosecution & Legal Services, Mr Joseph Sunday, specifically accused DCP Kyari and the four other police officers of conspiracy, obstruction, and dealing in Cocaine worth 17.55 kilograms.

It also alleged that Kyari and his men currently in its custody unlawfully tampered with 21.25kg worth of cocaine.

Umeibe and Ezenwanne were accused of conspiring with others at large, to import 21.35kg of cocaine into the country.

The NDLEA entered the charge against them, barely 24 hours after the Attorneys-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, okayed request for Kyari who hitherto headed the Police IRT, to be extradited to the United States of America, USA, to face trial over his alleged involvement with an internet fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, popularly known as Hussipuppi.