HAPPENING NOW:!!! #NDLEA Arraigns Abba Kyari Over Cocaine Business [PHOTOS]—Finally, the suspended deputy commissioner of police, Abba Kyari is currently at the Federal high court Abuja for his arraignment on 8 count charge of conspiracy, obstruction, and dealing in Cocaine.
They were brought into the court room around 8am in two batches of four and two, by armed operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
Kyari, dressed in blue native attire, was brought in to the court premises with one other defendants in a bus, while the other four were driven in two Hylux vans.
The agency, 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 equally alleged that Kyari and his men, who are currently in its custody, also unlawfully tampered with 21.25kg worth of Cocaine.
The duo of 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, hours after the Attorneys-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, okayed request for Kyari who hitherto headed the Police IRT, to be extradited to the US to face trial.
Malami had in the extradition application he also brought before the court, claimed that no charge was pending against DCP Kyari in Nigeria.
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