The Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other units of the Nigerian Police Force, on Friday ordered the Chairman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), to produce Abba Kyari, before it on March 22, 2022 over allegation of disappearance of three persons.
The missing persons were Danjuma Yakubu, Ibrahim Daniel and Choji Dung .
They were reported to have been arrested in 2019 by the operatives of the Inspector-General of Police-Intelligence Response Team (IGP-IRT) which was then being led by Kyari, a Deputy Superintendent of Police.
A statement issued by the Deputy Director (Press and External Linkages), National Human Rights Commission, Fatimah Agwai Mohammed, said a representative of the Nigerian Bar Association on the panel, John Aikpokpo Martins, made the order while presiding over the panel on behalf of its Chairman, Justice Suleiman Galadima (retd).
Mohammed said, “The order of the panel followed information from panel’s counsel, Halilu Adamu that Abba Kyari is in the custody of the NDLEA and Police counsel, James Idachaba told the panel that the Police can no longer produce Kyari since he is no longer in Police custody, having been suspended.”
