By The Nigerian Police Force has taken into custody, the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Abba Kyari.
According to the PUNCH, the embattled cop was nabbed alongside four others on Monday.
This comes hours after the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) declared the suspended police officer wanted over allegations of his links with an international drug cartel.
Femi Babafemi, the agency’s spokesperson, announced the decision during a short press conference held in NDLEA Headquarters, on Monday.
The NDLEA said it took the decision after all efforts to get him honour formal invitations for his interrogation failed.
The anti-narcotic agency also disclosed how Kyari met one of its officers to propose a drug deal whereby he and his team are to take 15kg of 25kg cocaine — which will be replaced with dummy — recovered from some suspected drug traffickers, further narrating how the deal went with its officer playing along to gather evidence.
Before his latest ordeal, Kyari had been indicted in a $1.1 million scam over his alleged collaboration with a self-confessed international fraudster, Hushpuppi. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the now-suspended police officer helped to jail one of the latter’s associates.
Though he had denied the allegations, the embattled cop was relieved of his appointment as the officer in charge of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) as recommended by the probe panel set up by the police authorities.
There have also been talks of possible extradition of Kyari to the United States where the fraud case is being treated. Some days ago, the Police Service Commission gave the police two weeks to conclude its findings on the matter, directing that the investigation should be done by a different panel.
