Drug law agency framed me for demanding compensation for whistle blower, says Kyari

The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari currently standing trial before a Federal Court in Abuja over his alleged criminal involvement in cocaine trafficking  has accused the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency(NDLEA) of arraigning him over a trump up charges.

Penpushing reports that, Kyari said contrary to charges preferred against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency(NDLEA), the agency corrupt operatives  framed him up after  he went to demand compensation for a whistleblower who provided information that led to the arrest of a suspect by the police intelligence response team (IRT).

The embattled police officer in a court document deposed to by one Muhammad Nur Usman who identified himself as his(Kyari) younger brother, said he agency operatives should  be responsible for the crime.

Penpushing further reports that, he alleged that, officials Drug Law Enforcement Agency(NDLEA) usually cleared the drug baron and even escort him from the airport to his destination, and  gave details that led to his travails at the hands the anti-narcotics agency

“That on that fateful day, the suspect as usual shipped drugs (cocaine) from Ethiopia to Enugu Airport. The officer of NDLEA cleared him within the airport, then officer of FIB-IRT arrested the suspect with the help of information’, the affidavit stated.

“That before the informant accepted to work with the officers of FIB-IRT, they both had an agreement to compensate the informant. That officers of FIB-IRT, having noticed that officers of NDLEA were the ones clearing the said suspect with his drugs (cocaine), they immediately took the suspect to NDLEA and also reported those officers involved in the act’.

“That instead of the NDLEA to handle the matter accordingly and bring their officers involved to book, they decided to frustrate the informant, thereby refusing to compensate the informant’, the document reads.

“That it was at this juncture that the attention of the DCP Abba Kyari was called, who because the NDLEA officer involved is his friend, decided to intervene for the purpose of compensating the informant’.

“That the NDLEA officer who refused to compensate the informant was the one who framed DCP Abba Kyari up on a trumped-up allegation that he was trying to bribe him. That the agent of the respondent declared the applicant wanted because of a mere allegation that he was trying to bribe an NDLEA officer without sufficient proof. That the Nigerian Police Force, based on the allegation of the respondent, arrested the applicant on February 12, 2022, and handed over to the NDLEA.”

Penpushing further reports that, Kyari insisted that  he was framed up, for demanding a reward for a whistleblower who aided the police Intelligence Response Team in the arrest of a suspect

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