The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has revealed more details in the ongoing investigation of a 25kg Cocaine deal involving suspended DCP Abba Kyari and four others.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, asserted that the agency would not shield anyone who may be indited in the course of the ongoing investigation and remains committed to the
evidence-based investigation and its resolve cannot be weakened by any misrepresentation of facts.

Earlier, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc(+), fdc, formally requested the NDLEA Chairman to ensure the identification, arrest, and investigation of the anti-drug agency’s officers found to be colluding with the international drug cartel involved in the case.

“To correct some inaccuracies in the information in the public space that NDLEA officers at the Enugu airport were the ones who received from the cartel details about the mule coming from Addis Ababa, the Agency wishes to quote from the transcript of Abba Kyari’s recorded conversation with our undercover Officer and a portion of ASP James Bawa’s statement to the Police as documented in the Police investigation report, a copy of which was made
available to the Agency, to state that it’s a fact that it’s the Abba Kyari’s team that was contacted by the cartel and without doubt, the records clearly show how their ring works.

“According to the Police investigation report, ASP James Bawa, in his statement to the Police reveals that “he was called by an informant identified as IK from Brazil who told him that a drug courier will be arriving onboard

Ethiopian Airlines in Enugu. He explained further that a pointer from IK, the Brazil-based informant, met with him at about 1420hrs on 19th January 2022 outside the airport and showed him a picture of the courier. Subsequently, they sighted the suspect as he exited the airport terminal after all arrival clearance formalities, and he was arrested with another associate.”

“In his recorded conversation with our undercover Officer, Abba Kyari also said the following: “They are greedy, seriously greedy (referring to his informants), we tried to have them accept 40%, but they refused, except 50%,
they know the rudiment of the deal very well, they are the ones that do the packing. From Brazil, one of the informants accompanied it to Ethiopia. You understand; one of the informants accompanied the goods to Ethiopia, one of the informants that gave us information. He is the boy of the big baron.

“Addis, from Addis it would be given to those to proceed further with it. He will get their snapshots without their knowledge. Yes, he will reveal those that are conveying it further, get snapshots of theirs without their knowledge and send them to us (Abba Kyari’s team). So we already know the goods, pictures and the clothes they are wearing, hope you understand, we know your name, he will give us everything. So, automatically my team will just be waiting, they will just see you and arrest you.”

Responding to our officer’s question on whether his boys are usually stationed inside or outside the Airport, Abba Kyari said, “Yes, yes, some are outside while some are inside. They will just allow you to finish arrival formalities and arrest you the moment you come out.”

“The above no doubt establishes who the cartel was relating with and their modus operandi. Again, this is to correct inaccuracies in some reports and assure that the Agency will not deviate from an evidence-based investigation that will spare nobody found complicit,” the statement read.

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