By Moses Okorie
365Daily – Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari has denied involvement in the allegation of drug trafficking leveled against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
The suspended DCP Kyari made this known on Monday, February 21, 2022, in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/182/22 brought before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja, saying, “I was being held on the basis of a false allegation”.
Kyari, in an ex-parte motion, he filed through his counsel, Mrs P. O. Ikenna, urged the court to grant him bail, on health ground, from NDLEA’s custody, pending hearing and determination of his fundamental right enforcement application.
When the case was called up, Justice Inyang Ekwo, noted that the suit contained some averments that would require FG’s response.
“Upon studying the process of the Applicant and averments in support thereon, I am of the opinion that the Respondent should be put on notice”, the Judge held.
Effort by counsel to the Applicant to persuade the court to order Kyari’s release on the ground that “his health has deteriorated badly”, failed.
Rather, Justice Ekwo ordered that all the relevant processes should be served on FG which was cited as the sole Respondent, even as he adjourned the case till February 24 for hearing.
Recall that the Police had earlier on Friday, arrested and detained Kyari and his boys in the IRT team before they were handed over to the NDLEA.
He had earlier been declared wanted for being one of the leaders of a cartel of drug barons operating in the Brazil-Ethiopia-Nigeria network.