HURIWA: ABBA KYARI’S TEAM SPINNING DESPERATE FALSEHOODS TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE

The Human Rights Writers Affiliation of Nigeria (HURIWA) needs to alert the Nigerian public, and the worldwide neighborhood to a coordinated marketing campaign of calumny and deliberate misinformation being orchestrated by the handlers of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari presently dealing with trial for drug trafficking offences.

Following an in-depth investigation into current sponsored studies circulating on social media, which declare that two convicted drug traffickers have indicted officers of the Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) of complicity within the case, HURIWA can authoritatively affirm that these studies are a complete fabrication and a careless try and subvert the course of justice.

Our findings, backed by official court docket data and witness statements, reveal a starkly totally different actuality from the narrative being pushed by Kyari’s camp. Of their official witness statements, the convicted traffickers Chibunna Patrick Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus Ezenwanne categorically denied any contact or collusion with NDLEA officers on the Enugu airport in January 2022.

The convicts confessed that their footage and journey particulars had been truly despatched to Abba Kyari. Regardless of being on suspension on the time over one other felony case for which the USA authorities remains to be in search of his extradition to the US for trial, Kyari dispatched a workforce from Abuja to Enugu to intercept the traffickers for his personal ends.

The convicts have acknowledged on document that whereas in Kyari’s custody, they had been compelled beneath duress to indict the NDLEA. The “video confession” presently being circulated was scripted, with Kyari’s males actively dictating what the suspects ought to say whereas recording.

HURIWA reminds the general public that no quantity of digital spin can erase the overwhelming proof already admitted as displays in court docket. The world has seen the video of Abba Kyari handing over $61,400 to an NDLEA secret agent. This money was established to be the proceeds from the sale of a part of the cocaine Kyari’s workforce seized from the exact same convicts they’re now making an attempt to make use of as pawns.

“It’s pathetic {that a} high-ranking officer would resort to such low-level blackmail. This can be a clear try and distract the general public from the gravity of the drug trafficking prices. The U.S. authorities and the worldwide neighborhood are watching this case carefully. You can not ‘spin’ your method out of a forensic sting operation.”

For the advantage of the general public who they’re struggling onerous to confuse, the transcript of the dialog between Abba Kyari and an NDLEA secret agent, already admitted as exhibit in court docket, clearly confirmed the transactional relationship and conspiracy between Kyari and members of the drug trafficking cartel. Here’s a sampler from the dialog between Abba Kyari and NDLEA secret agent:

ABBA KYARI: Sure, they (Cartel) will disclose to me these which are conveying it (the medicine), snap their footage and ship to us. So, we already know their items, image and the garments they’re sporting, hope you perceive, we all know their names, they’ll give us every thing. So, routinely the workforce will simply be ready, they’ll simply see them and decide them up.

NDLEA UNDERCOVER AGENT: However are your boys contained in the airport or outdoors?

ABBA KYARI: Sure, sure, some are outdoors whereas some are inside. They’ll simply enable them to complete every thing and arrest them the second they arrive out.

This tallied with the witness statements by the 2 already convicted Kyari’s co-accused. Within the phrases of one in every of them, Chibunna Patrick Umeibe: “I traveled to Ethiopia, Addis Ababa on tenth of January 2022, then I stayed in a lounge on the airport and any individual known as me on cellphone whose identify I can’t keep in mind that Jekwu gave him my quantity that he supposed to provide me some stuff which is cocaine. He met me on the lounge and gave me the stuff which is contained in the nylon bag, then later snapped my image. Then that was on the 18th of January 2022 (after staying 8 days within the airport) he requested me to decorate the way in which I’ll journey again earlier than he snapped the image. Then after snapping the image he left. He is aware of the explanation of snapping the image, then on nineteenth of January I boarded to Nigeria. Instantly attending to the skin (Enugu worldwide airport), a younger man approached me and mentioned that I ought to give him my worldwide passport and I requested him what for? He convey out police ID card and confirmed me instantly and earlier than I do know, different police individuals some are on uniform whereas some will not be on uniform, they surrounded me and pushed me and my brother inside a sienna automotive and zoomed off.”

There’s subsequently little doubt from the court docket data that the photographs of the convicts had been taken by the cartel members on the Addis Ababa airport and despatched to Abba Kyari to allow him establish the couriers. That is the one purpose his officers had been capable of decide solely the 2 couriers out of the multitude of individuals on the airport’s automotive park.

HURIWA subsequently calls on the Nigerian judiciary to stay undeterred by these subterranean strikes to blackmail the prosecution. We urge the media to be skilled and confirm claims in opposition to official court docket transcripts earlier than amplifying narratives that search to protect alleged drug kingpins from accountability. The details of the crime stay fixed, no quantity of sponsored falsehood will want away the proof of the $61,400 bribe or the documented betrayal of public belief.

Emmanuel Onwubiko

Nationwide Coordinator, Human Rights Writers Affiliation of Nigeria (HURIWA)

March 25, 2026