DCP Abba Kyari: Group Write President Tinubu Plead For The Release Of The Super Cop
Your Excellency Sir;
Permit us to congratulate you on winning the keenly contested Presidential election of 2023 and your successful swearing in on the 29th of May 2023 as the President and Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Mr President Sir, on the 22nd of May 2023 the Center for Democracy and Human Rights CEDEHUR held an International press conference on The complicity of the NDLEA in the fight against drug trafficking in Nigeria,where we highlighted and exposed the clandestine, questionable and suspicious activities of the NDLEA under Gen Buba Marwa rtd.We stated that as a CSO we would want him investigated and Appropriate action be taken if found guilty.
A copy of the press release is hereby attached Mr President.
What CEDEHUR found out in a nutshell, Your Excellency, was that the NDLEA officers in Akanu Ibiam international airport in Enugu were colluding with drug barons and international drug cartels to bring hard drugs into Nigeria in large quantities from Brazil. The Intelligence Response Team, IRT, of the Nigeria Police formerly led by DCP Abba Kyari acting on a tip off arrested two of the drug traffickers namely Patrick Chibunna Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus Ezenwanne with over 21 kilograms of chemicals suspected to be cocaine full to the brim in their 2 carry-on bags at the car park of the Enugu airport after they had been cleared by the NDLEA officers at the airport, as confessed by the international Drug traffickers both on video and in written when they were with the Police.
They had arrived in Nigeria in an Ethiopian Airline flight from Addis Ababa which originally took off from Brazil.
After their arrest by the IRT they confessed in writing and also on video that their bosses had bribed the NDLEA officers at the Enugu airport with 10 million naira for each before their arrival and their pictures was snapped and sent to NDLEA officers in Enugu Airport while they were in Ethiopia to facilitate their easy identification and clearing that is to aid and abet their free passage and that they were about thirty (30) of them on that flight, They then pleaded with the IRT police officers to take the whole seized cocaine with a street value of over one hundred (100) million naira and let them go. The IRT officers refused the offers and being respecters of the powers vested in different government agencies, voluntarily officially handed them over to the NDLEA for further investigation and prosecution. This was not the first time that the IRT was doing that.
Your Excellency Sir, that is when the story took a dramatic turn. The NDLEA went ahead to set up DCP Abba Kyari and his IRT officers, when Abba Kyari who was not aware of the arrest and investigation by Police IRT was called into the matter at the last point by the IRT team leader to help approach a very senior officer in NDLEA he had known for a long time to help in rewarding the whistle blower that delivered good job. The Police had sworn to reward him before he agreed to provide a tip off and even promised to reveal other drug barons in order to arrest the increasing spate of drug trafficking on the Brazil-Ethiopia-Nigeria route.
The NDLEA instead of advising the Police on whether or not the whistle blower can be rewarded, organised a malicious set up against the Police followed by a massive sponsored media trial and falsehoods, saying that they who had initially arrested the drug traffickers without the knowledge of the NDLEA and still handed them over with the seized 21 kilograms of cocaine to NDLEA had tempered with some of the hard drugs they recovered solely by themselves and NDLEA falsely told the media that the Police are involved in drug trafficking whereas it was the NDLEA that was actually implicated and indicted by the international drug traffickers arrested by Police IRT and transferred to NDLEA in their written and video confessions that NDLEA officers in Enugu Airport are conniving with them and their Bosses the international drug Cartel members to bring heavy drugs into Nigeria multiple times.
DCP Abba Kyari and his IRT officers who voluntarily reported to the Police FIB after receiving phone call that there was a complaint by NDLEA, thereafter the Police hurriedly transferred her officers to NDLEA while NDLEA refused to transfer their indicted NDLEA officers to the Police as requested by the Police on 14/2/2022.
The NDLEA immediately went on media trial by releasing lots of falsehood to the Media and later filed trumped up charges in court against the Police IRT officers and they are still fighting tooth and nail dropping big names to ensure the Police officers are not granted bail to date after 16 months in custody for allegations that are bailable in Nigerian Laws. While same NDLEA in 2022 after few months allowed bail for several alleged Billionaire Drug Baron lncluding Chief Mallison Ukatu who they announced to the world that he imported 22 billion naira drugs into Nigeria, Chief Ugoh whom they said they caught with 8.9 billion naira drugs are all free today.
Also It baffles every reasonable and right thinking Nigerian on how the main criminals in this case the International drug traffickers have been released after just 16 months imprisonment while Police IRT officers who arrested them, refused to compromise and transferred the Drugs and drugs traffickers to NDLEA are still in jail.
The NDLEA agreed on a ridiculous plea bargain with the International Drug traffickers and they were convicted and sentenced to just two (2) years in prison for a crime that they were originally supposed to spend twenty eight (28) years in prison upon conviction!
The convicted drug traffickers were recently released from the Suleja prison on the 19th of May 2023 while the IRT officers led by DCP Abba Kyari who arrested them are still in detention in Kuje prison without bail!
Your Excellency Sir, this is the height of injustice on these police officers of the IRT who were just doing their legitimate job patriotically by arresting and transferring drug traffickers to a sister security agency for investigation and prosecution.
There was absolutely no mention of the drug barons at all by NDLEA, no action was taken to arrest them, neither traced their properties bought from drug monies but NDLEA out of Vendetta, Vindictiveness, Malice and Persecution continued charging the Police officers and their family members to multiple courts on different trumped up charges without any Evidence while the main criminals the International drug traffickers who confessed their bosses are settling NDLEA as they brought heavy drugs into Nigeria multiple times are allowed to go free on 19/5/2023 after just 16 months.
This is a clear indictment on the leadership of the NDLEA as this clearly shows that they are either an accomplice with the drug barons and working for the Drug barons and the international drug traffickers.
Furthermore, none of the indicted NDLEA officers in Enugu Airport was arrested or prosecuted despite the confessions of the international drug traffickers and CCTV footages in Enugu Airport which captured the activities of their officers in clearing the international drug traffickers arrested by the Police IRT.
Mr President Sir, CEDEHUR would like to commend you for hitting the ground running as the President of Nigeria. You boldly tackled the fuel subsidy issue by removing it in your first speech and day in office as president. You suspended the ex-CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele who inflicted pains, hardship and untold suffering on all Nigerians by his ill advised Naira redesign policy, and you have also removed the EFCC boss to fight corruption and economic crimes better.
The quick passage of the student loan bill to assist Nigerian youths to pay for their tertiary education is also noted with gratitude Sir.
You cleared the doubts of most Nigerians who doubted you and your good intentions Sir, CEDEHUR congratulates you on these prompt and decisive decisions that have impacted positively on governance in Nigeria.
It is imperative and exigent Sir, that having tackled these burning issues quickly, positive actions taken on crude oil theft and the petroleum industry and finally the future of Nigerian youths in relation to tertiary education and loans the next to be tackled should be the challenge of insecurity in virtually every section of Nigeria.
Your Excellency Sir, DCP Abba Kyari and his IRT team performed very well when he was in charge and arrested thousands of notorious terrorists, killers, kidnappers, bandits, cattle rustlers and armed robbers across all the Geo-Political zones in Nigeria and curtailed the growth of deadly crimes in the country effectively, his records are very clear for all to see by simply googling on his achievements. Mr President Sir, you also witnessed how he led the clearing of deadly armed robbers, kidnappers, Bank robbers and other deadly criminals in Lagos and across Southwest from 2007 to 2015 and his work across Nigeria from 2015 to 2021. Permit us to mention just a few sir.
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