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A former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, on Monday was completely in awe, as he wonders why the former head of the Intelligence Response Team, IRT, DCP Abba Kyari, is too big for President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
Omokri recalled in a tweet on Monday that “Under President Obasanjo, Nuhu Ribadu was arrested and handcuffed. Tafa Balogun, the then Inspector General of Police, was arrested and handcuffed.
“What is so special about DCP Abba Kyari that he is not yet in jail and is still even attending parties?”
NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday, chronicled how Kyari belonged to a drug cartel that operates the Brazil-Ethiopia-Nigeria illicit drug route.
It would be recalled that Kyari was suspended over his alleged involvement with an international fraudster, Ramon Abass, popularly known as Hushpuppi.
The former Intelligence Response Team, IRT, boss was alleged to have benefitted from a heist carried out by Hushpuppi and his gang in Dubai.
He, however, denied involvement in Hushpuppi’s fraudulent activities.
But in the latest development, NDLEA said there is evidence linking Kyari to a drug cartel that operates the Brazil-Ethiopia-Nigeria illicit drug pipeline.
The agency later released a video linking the Police officer to the drug trafficking cartel, adding that the DCP needs to answer questions that came up in an ongoing drug case in which he is the principal actor.
Kyari was admitted into Police Academy Wudil, Kano State in 2000, he graduated as cadet Assistance Superintendent of Police (ASP) and was posted to Adamawa State Police Command for his one-year mandatory attachment in Song Police Division.
He was later deployed as Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) in Numan, Adamawa State, Kyari also served as Unit Commander 14 PMF Yola. He moved to Lagos State Police Command as 2 IC and later Officer-In-Charge of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
Until the revelation of his engagement with the infamous alleged Nigerian fraudster (Ramon Abbas) popularly known as Hushpuppi who is currently facing charges of money laundering leveled against him by the United States Government that implicated kyari as a party in an international scheme to defraud Qatari school founder and then launder over 1.1million dollars in illicit proceeds that led to his suspension, Kyari was the head of the Inspector General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team in the Nigerian Police Force Headquarters in Abuja.
He is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP).