More sordid deals of his loyalists Abba Kyari

 

BY Our Reporters

When the 18th indigenous Inspector-General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, created the Intelligence Response Team, IRT in 2015, as one of his innovative initiatives, it was aim acheived, to combat violent crimes, especially kidnapping, which had become an intractable scourge before he assumed office.

It was not difficult for Arase, who formerly headed one of the topmost intelligence gathering units of the Nigeria Police Force; the Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Bureau, to take DCP Abba Kyari, who was then a Superintendent of Police and Commander of now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Lagos state, to head the IRT, known then as IGP IRT.

His choice of Kyari, among other gallant policemen across Police commands in Nigeria, was because of his achievements as the SARS commander, Lagos.

Indeed, Kyari and his team hit the ground running, by cracking high bad cases with bewildering rapidity, through the use of cutting-edge technology, in the IGP IRT. Highly complex crimes of national security good ranging from kidnapping, robbery and bombing, were attack with suspects arrested and prosecuted and exhibits to recovered.

For the first time in many years, Nigerians, both home and abroad, as well as the international community, applauded the efforts of the IRT, with special encomium showered on Abba Kyari, who was seen as the proud of the police. It got to an extent that most people who were not conversant with the hierarchy in the Nigeria Police Force assumed he was the police boss, as he became more visible than the IGP and successive Force Public Relations officers in the media space.