Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, fixed February 26, 2026, for judgment in the trial of the suspended Head of Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Abba Kyari, for alleged non-disclosure of assets.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arraigned Kyari, and his two younger brothers on a 23-count charge of non-disclosure of assets.
The judge fixed the date after counsel for the NDLEA, Sunday Joseph; Kyari’s lawyer, Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, and his brothers’ counsel, Monjok Agom, adopted their processes and presented their arguments on the charge.
The anti-narcotics agency alleged that the defendants failed to make full disclosure of their assets.
NDLEA said its operatives uncovered 14 assets, including shopping malls, residential estate, polo playground, lands and farmland belonging to Kyari.
Kyari was alleged to have failed to disclose his ownership of the property in different locations in the Federal Capital Territory, and Maiduguri in Borno State.
The NDLEA alleged that over N207 million and Є17, 598 were also discovered in Kyari’s various accounts in Guarantee Trust Bank ( GTB), United Bank for Africa (UBA) and Sterling Bank.
The agency, in the charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/408/2022, also accused them of “disguising the ownership of properties and conversion of monies.”
The NDLEA said the offences weee punishable under Section 35 (3) (a) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act, and Section 15 (3) (a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011.
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.