Court grants NDLEA’s request to detain Abba Kyari’s alleged accomplices

A request by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to further detain two alleged accomplices of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has been approved by a Federal High Court.

The court sitting in Abuja granted the anti-drug agency’s petition to detain Chibunna Patrick Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus for 14 days.

The duo who would be detained at the NDLEA facility was named in the case involving suspended DCP Abba Kyari’s alleged illegal drug peddling.

Granting the agency’s request today, Justice Zainab Abubakar said Umeibe and Alphonous should be held by the NDLEA facility pending investigation of the crimes they allegedly committed.

The judge’s order followed the request made by the director of the Prosecution and Legal Services of the NDLEA, Joseph Sunday.

Sunday had in his request moved an ex-parte application to that effect.

Umeibe and Alphonsus were said to have been arrested by the NDLEA at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, on January 19.