An Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violations has ordered the Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig. General Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd.) to produce before it on 22nd March Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari, who is facing trial for alleged drug trafficking at a Federal High Court in Abuja. Until his suspension last August, Kyari was …

The Head of the Federal Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (FCIID), Joseph Egbunike is dead. A Deputy Inspector-General of Police, sources said Egbunike slumped in his office in Abuja on Tuesday night. He is the head of the Special Investigation Panel looking into the alleged money laundering case involving the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari. The FCIID is …

A defence counsel in the charges of illicit cocaine dealing against suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari has said that his clients’ guilty plea was not based on ignorance. Chibuna Umeibe and Emeka Ezenwanne, who were charged along with Kyari and four other police officers, appeared with the other accused persons at a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday …