The Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, has declared that the embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, had actually killed a number of innocent youths in the area while he was serving as the commander of the IGP Response Team in Imo State.

In a declaration provided by its President General, Goodluck Ibem, the coalition, which is an umbrella body of all the youth groups in the South East geopolitical zone, said Nigerians had overlooked the outcry of the Southeastern youths on alleged extrajudicial killings by the authorities.

COSEYL, while admiring the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, under the leadership of Brigadier General Buba Marwa (Rtd) for discovering the supposed criminal activities of Abba Kyari in Southeast, said the youths in the region have actually been vindicated.

DAILY POST recalls that Abba Kyari was jailed by the Nigeria Police on Monday after he was stated wanted by NDLEA over alleged drug trafficking.

Ibem said, “Before now, we had raised the alarm that DCP Abba Kyari was extrajudicially killing innocent Nigerian youths however the authority didn’t believe them, nevertheless, the credible intelligence conducted by NDLEA that led to his arrest, has vindicated us the Southeast youths”.

The coalition required that the Federal Government extradite Kyari to the United States of America after a probe by NDLEA to enable him deal with the accusations of ties with the web fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, widely known as Hushpuppi.

COSEYL likewise demanded that the damages by Abba Kyari in the region must be provided considerable attention by pertinent authorities.

“We call on the Police Service Commission, PSC, and other appropriate firms burdened the responsibility of handling erring police officers to probe all extrajudicial killings by Abba Kyari and other crimes he might have committed in the course of his service in Nigeria and other parts of the country.

“When Abba Kyari was released to Imo State to lead the IGP Response Team, he was very hectic eliminating innocent Nigerians youths for gallantry and using the media to acquire inexpensive popularity and posing as a hero which he is not.

“He has just proved to Nigerians that all these while, he was living a sly life and deceiving the general public. The so-called gallantry service he made us to believe was just to distract Nigerians from knowing his genuine person,” the statement added.