The embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has claimed that members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN) are behind his travails.
According to Daily Trust, Kyari made this claim when he appeared before a probe panel led by Joseph Egbunike, a Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) at the Force Headquarters, Abuja.
In a report submitted by the panel to the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, which was in turn forwarded to the Police Service Commission (PSC), Kyari said IPOB and its security wing, ESN, were after him due to the onslaught launched against them in the South-East.
Kyari, who did not deny violating social media rules of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), was berated by the panel for the fact that the officer had been warned against the same practice previously.
“It is a campaign to smear his reputation by members of IPOB/ESN who vowed to destroy him, due to his onslaught against them in the South East,” Kyari was quoted to have said in the report.
The panel faulted his claim, stating that it is watery and ordered his demotion from the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police to Assistant Commissioner of Police.
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that the United States Department of Justice had said ongoing investigations showed that notorious internet fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi allegedly bribed Kyari to arrest one Kelly Chibuzo Vincent, one of his accomplices in Nigeria.
This publication had also reported that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, narrated how it filmed the moment suspended Head of the Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari, was negotiating a drug deal for the release of 25kg of cocaine and offered $61,400 cash to NDLEA officer.