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By Emma Nnadozie, Crime Editor & Kingsley Omonobi, LAGOS – Vanguard

Fresh facts emerged yesterday on how the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba and Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National   Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa, retd, met at Force Headquarters, Abuja, to decide the fate of the suspended commander of the Police Force Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari, over his involvement in a 25kg cocaine deal.

The revelation came on a day the Police shut down all IRT units in states across the federation, following the arrest of DCP Kyari.

This is even as senior retired officers yesterday expressed disappointment over DCP Kyari’s alleged involvement in the cocaine saga, calling on the Police and NDLEA to fish out serving and retired senior policemen as well as politicians, who had been backing the suspended IRT commander.

Besides, the anti-narcotics agency has begun interrogation of Kyari and four others arrested in connection with the cocaine deal, assuring that it would not leave any stone unturned in bringing everyone involved to book.

Vanguard reliably gathered that the atrocities of some policemen and officials of NDLEA in drug deals reached the NDLEA high command since last year, following which some heads of departments at the operation units in some states were changed.

Kyari’s drug deal saga was reportedly one of the major complaints received by the Buba Marwa-led administration.

Marwa storms Police Hq unannounced

It was learned that on receiving the video clip that nailed Kyari, Marwa visited the Police headquarters on Thursday without prior notice. IGP Alkali Baba was said to be on his way out of the office when he was informed that Marwa was on the premises.

Sources disclosed that the IGP was stunned when the NDLEA boss disclosed the reason for his visit and further showed him the video clip where Kyari was heard negotiating with the NDLEA officials, in their vehicle.

The arrest

The following day, (Friday) IGP Baba Usman held a management meeting with the top echelon of the command where he briefed them on the matter at hand.

Before then, he had ordered the arrest of other officers fingered in the drug deal. They included ACP Sunday Ubuah, ASP Bawa James, Inspector Simeon Agrigba and John Nuhu.  They were all taken to  Police headquarters where they were detained.

But DCP Abba Kyari was reportedly not seen on Friday. As Vanguard gathered that the search for him was extended to his Abuja home and the mosque where he usually had his Jumat prayer but was not found there.

Sources close to him revealed that when news of the arrest of his loyalists reached Kyari, he was advised to flee the country in order to evade arrest and the scandal that would come with it but he declined.

Telephone calls were reportedly made to some eminent personalities in Nigeria to prevail on the IGP and Marwa to play down the matter because of Kyari’s pending case in the United States of America regarding the ongoing trial of Ramon Abass, popularly known as Hushpuppi.

Sources hinted that there was apprehension over Kyari’s temporary disappearance at the Police High command as at Friday night.

The IGP was reportedly worried because of the negative publicity Kyari’s disappearance would generate for the Police high command.

Kyari was eventually arrested on Saturday and taken into custody with other policemen earlier arrested, from where they were handed over to the NDLEA on Monday.

Fear grips Police suspects inside NDLEA cell as Abba Kyari rejects food

Meanwhile, Vanguard learned yesterday that Kyari rejected being fed with food prepared by the agency’s officials inside his cell at Gambia Street, Area 11, Garriki, Abuja. 

NDLEA sources said he had been relying on food brought by a yet-to-be-identified friend, instead of eating what was prepared for him and other inmates inside the cell. 

It was gathered that the once respected and highly rated police officer confided in his fellow cellmates that he didn’t trust