Abba Kyari, former Head of the Intelligence Response Team, IRT, of the police has alleged a threat to his life in the Kuje correctional facility.
Kyari complained that he is not safe sharing the same correctional facility with criminals.
The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, made this known when he made an appeal in the Abuja Federal High Court to review his bail application initially rejected.
Kyari’s remark was conveyed in a document presented to the Abuja Federal High Court by his lawyer, Nureini Jimoh.
The document reads partly: “At the centre, the applicants who were head and deputy head of the Intelligence Response Team of the Nigeria Police Force met stiff resistance, attack and open threats to the lives of the applicants by the series head (sic) of a criminal gang that they had busted.
“There is no correctional centre that the criminals that have been arrested by the IRT under the headship of the applicant in furtherance of their constitutional and statutory duties as police officers cannot be found and there is a high likelihood of threat to the lives of the applicants.”
In March, the court had ordered that Kyari be remanded at Kuje Correctional Centre pending the conclusion of his trial.
The report has it that he was apprehended by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on February 12 and was arraigned on March 7 over allegations of drug trafficking.
