Abba Kyari and other co-defendants appeared before an Abuja court on Monday after the Federal Government, through the NDLEA, arraigned him and others on eight counts bordering on conspiracy, obstruction, and dealing in cocaine, and other related offences.
Recent
report reveal journalist and activist, Agba Jalingo, has narrated how suspended
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, locked him up in a car trunk and
drove him from Lagos State to Calabar, the Cross River State capital.
The
activist, in a statement on Monday, also hit operatives of the National Drug
Law Enforcement Agency over their failure to handcuff Kyari and other suspects
in court on Monday.
While two
of Kyari’s accomplices pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against them,
the embattled former head of the Intelligence Response Team said he was
innocent.
He was
thereafter denied bail by Justice Emeka Nwite who adjourned the matter till
Monday and ordered that Kyari and the other defendants be remanded in NDLEA
custody.
Commenting
on the appearance of Kyari in court on Monday, Jalingo accused security
agencies of giving preferential treatment to the cop.
Jalingo
was in 2019 detained for 179 days at the Afokang Prison in Calabar following an
allegation of treason by the Cross River State Governor, Benedict Ayade.
He was
subsequently released on February 17, 2020, on bail.
The
activist on Monday recalled his prison ordeal and revealed that Kyari and ACP
Sunday Ubua (also in NDLEA’s net) drove him by road in a car trunk from Lagos
to Calabar.
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