Cocaine Burst: Court Jails Two Co-Defendants Of Abba Kyari

Two co-defendants of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, have been convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment.

Recall that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency filed a suit alleging that Kyari and some other officials in his team were involved in a drug deal.

Deciding the fate of two of the defendants on Tuesday, a Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice Emeka Nwite said having admitted to committing the offence preferred against them in counts 5, 6 and 7 by the NDLEA, Chibunna Umeibe and Emeka Ezenwanne, who are 6th and 7th defendants, “are hereby convicted accordingly.”

He, thereafter, sentenced them to two years imprisonment on each of counts 5, 6 and 7.

He said the terms, which shall run concurrently, would commence from the day the defendants were arrested by the NDLEA.

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The two defendants, Umeibe and Ezenwanne, who are 6th and 7th defendants respectively in the matter, are the two alleged drug traffickers arrested at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu by the Nigerian police and handed over to the NDLEA.

They had pleaded guilty to five, six and seven counts preferred against them by the anti-narcotic agency.

At the resumed hearing, counsel for the NDLEA, Sunday Joseph, told Justice Emeka Nwite that two motions seeking a plea bargain in respect of Umeibe and Ezenwanne had been filed.

Joseph said the motions, dated June 13, were filed on June 14.

The lawyer of the two defendants, E. U. Okenyi, also concurred with Joseph’s submission.

Also, counsel for other defendants, including Kyari, did not oppose the motions.