How Abba Kyari tortured activist, locked him in car booth from Lagos-Calabar’

An activist and journalist, Agba Jalingo, has narrated an ugly encounter in the hands of suspended Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), DCP Abba Kyari.

Jalingo, who was allegedly kept in detention for six months, on the orders of Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, and charged with treason, said the disgraced ‘Super Cop’ locked him up in a car booth and drove him from Lagos to Calabar, the Cross River State capital, a journey of about 800 kilometres.

The activist, in a statement on Monday, also faulted the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), who arraigned Kyari and his co-travellers in court on Monday, over their failure to handcuff Kyari and the other suspects.

The NDLEA is prosecuting Kyari and six other policemen on eight counts bordering on conspiracy, obstruction and dealing in cocaine and other related offences.

Commenting on the appearance of Kyari in court on Monday, Jalingo accused security agencies of giving preferential treatment to the cop.

Jalingo was in 2019 detained for 179 days at the Afokang Prison in Calabar following an allegation of treason by the Cross River State Governor, Benedict Ayade.

He was subsequently released on February 17, 2020, on bail.

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The activist in his statement recalled his prison ordeal and revealed that Kyari and ACP Sunday Ubua (also in NDLEA’s net) drove him by road in a car trunk from Lagos to Calabar.

Jalingo said, “Abba Kyari and ACP Ubua were paid by the Cross River Government to arrest me from Lagos, drive me by road in the booth of a Toyota Highlander and hand over to Calabar. I will never forget and don’t ask me to.

“I was charged. Every day I appeared in court, I arrived with my hands and handcuffs lifted in the air.

“Today, these men are in court, the same men who enjoyed parading their own suspects gleefully in the media, even against the law, they are now covering their faces. Covering their faces from what exactly! The same cameras they flaunted in the faces of those they kept and refused to even take to court?”

Abba Kyari has been entangled in multiple criminal activities, including his involvement with the convicted Internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi, for which the United States had requested for his extradition from Nigeria.