At least 20 lawyers have revealed desire to defend the suspended DCP Abba Kyari.

Musa Shafiu, a legal practitioner, told newsmen on Wednesday, on behalf of other legal representatives.

He added that the team is comprised of four senior advocates of Nigeria who represented Kyari and his co-defendant in the trial which would begin prior to Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court, Abuja.

“We ought to remember that DCP Abba Kyari, in a movement filed before Justice Inyang Ekwo of Federal High Court sitting in Abuja denied the accusation connecting him to an international drug cartel by the NDLEA.

“He submitted the motion to seek for the enforcement of his fundamental rights.

“He stated he was all set to appear in court to answer any charge against him due to the fact that the claims upon which he was detained and detained is a trump-up claims without adequate proof,” Shafiu stated.

The attorney said the choice to support Kyari, previously the head of Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT), was also predicated on the sacrifices the suspended DCP had actually made for the nation in the location of security.

He said Kyari has actually identified himself in locations of serving his daddy’s land as a policeman, with the arrest of lots of prominent crooks throughout the nation.

He said his “great and devotion to the country is far more than his shortcoming.”

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NDLEA, through its Director, Prosecution and Legal Services, Joseph Sunday, had, on Monday, arraigned Kyari, along with six others, including four suspended officers of IRT, on eight-count charge.

Kyari, who rejected his involvement in counts one, 2, 3, 4, and eight of the charges preferred against him, is facing trial on drug-related offences.

The other four members of the IRT, in the charge, marked FHC/ABJ/57/ 2022, who pleaded innocent to the counts, consist of ACP Sunday J. Ubia, ASP Bawa James, Insp. Simon Agirigba and Insp. John Nuhu.

Chibunna Patrick Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus Ezenwanne, the two declared drug traffickers that were jailed at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu, are defendants who pleaded guilty to the counts levelled against them.

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