Drug Deal: Abba Kyari’s co-defendants Sent to Prison

By Michael V. Bolgent

Administrator

Posted: June 14, 2022 at 1:22 PM, Updated: June 14, 2022 at 1:22 PM

Abba Kyari and Logo of the NDLEA

Two co-defendants in a suit filed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) against suspended DCP Abba Kyari over an alleged drug deal were convicted and sentenced to two years in jail by a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday.

In a ruling, Justice Emeka Nwite noted that because Chibunna Umeibe and Emeka Ezenwanne, the 6th and 7th defendants, admitted to having committed the offence charged by the NDLEA in counts 5, 6 and 7, they “are consequently convicted accordingly.”

On each of counts 5, 6, and 7, Justice Nwite sentenced them to two years in jail.

He stated that the terms would begin on the day the defendants were apprehended by the NDLEA and would run concurrently.

According to the Nigerian News Agency, the two defendants (of the drug deal case), Umeibe and Ezenwanne, who are the sixth and seventh defendants in the case, were arrested by Nigerian police at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu and handed over to the NDLEA.

The anti-narcotics agency had filed five, six, and seven counts against them, and they had pleaded guilty to all of them.

Sunday Joseph, counsel for the NDLEA, told Justice Emeka Nwite that two applications seeking a plea bargain in the cases of Umeibe and Ezenwanne (accused of drug deal) had been submitted, according to NAN.

The motions, dated June 13, were filed on June 14, according to Joseph.

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E. U. Okenyi, the counsel for the two defendants, agreed with Joseph’s statement.

Other defendants’ attorneys, including Kyari’s, did not object to the motions.

(NAN)

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