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By Akinwande Soji-Ojo
The suspended Head of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari, has been arrested by the police.
Kyari was arrested alongside four others on Monday, The PUNCH reports.
He was arrested hours after National Drug Law Enforcement Agency(NDLEA) declared him wanted over alleged drug links.
NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, had at a press briefing in Abuja, on Monday, chronicled how Kyari belonged to a drug cartel that operates the Brazil-Ethiopia-Nigeria illicit drug pipeline.
The anti-drug agency said Kyari contacted one of its officers in Abuja and struck a deal to secure the release of 15kg out of a total of 25kg seized cocaine.
The suspended DCP is also under investigation after the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States of America indicted him in a fraud case involving Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abbas, aka Hushpuppi.