I Got Involved Because NDLEA Refused To Compensate The Informant – DCP Abba Kayri
It could not be clear if Federal Government of Nigeria have the right to steal goods or exhibits seized from suspect or suspects to sell them and be able to pay compensation to informant who assisted the government agents in tracking and arresting a criminal suspect.
Detained DCP Abba Kayri over his involvement on the stealing of 25 kilograms of cocaine seized from suspect at Enugu International Airport in a court affidavit presented before Justice Inyang Ekwo of Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, described the claims leveled against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA as untrue.
The Court Affidavit as published by SaharaReporters is marked: FHC/ANJ/CS/182/22 and filed before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
The document presented by DCP Abba Kayri’s lawyer, Cynthia Obianuju Ikena reads:
That the respondent is Federal Republic of Nigeria represented by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Abuja.
That a suspect has been shipping in drugs (cocaine) to Nigeria from Ethiopia using all the Airports in Nigeria with the knowledge of the NDLEA officers.
That usually, NDLEA officers cleared him and even escorted him from the airport to his destination.
That on that fateful day, the suspect as usual shipped drugs (cocaine) from Ethiopia to Enugu Airport, and the officers of NDLEA cleared him within the airport and escorted him out of the airport.
Then officers of FIB-IRT arrested the suspect with the help of an informant.
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 it was at this juncture that the attention of the DCP Abba Kyari was called, whom because the NDLEA officer involved is his friend.
And he (Kyari) 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 trump-up allegation that he was trying to bribe him.
That the agent of the respondent (NDLEA) declared the applicant wanted because of a mere allegation that he was trying to bribe an NDLEA officer without sufficient proof.
That the allegation upon which the applicant is arrested and detained is a trump-up allegation without sufficient proof.
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