The Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, have said the arrest of the embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has vindicated them.
In a statement issued by its President General, Goodluck Ibem, the coalition, which is an umbrella body of all the youth groups in the South East geopolitical zone, alleged that Kyari had killed several innocent youths in the region while he was serving as the commander of the IGP Response Team in Imo State.
He said Nigerians had ignored the outcry of the Southeastern youths on alleged extrajudicial killings by the police.
According to Ibem: “Before now, we had raised the alarm that DCP Abba Kyari was extrajudicially killing innocent Nigerian youths but the authority didn’t believe them, however, the credible intelligence conducted by NDLEA that led to his arrest, has vindicated us the Southeast youths”.
He said: “We call on the Police Service Commission, PSC, and other relevant agencies saddled with the responsibility of dealing with erring police officers to probe all extrajudicial killings by Abba Kyari and other crimes he may have committed in the course of his service in Nigeria and other parts of the country.
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“When Abba Kyari was deployed to Imo State to lead the IGP Response Team, he was very busy killing innocent Nigerians youths for gallantry and using the media to gain cheap popularity and posing as a hero which he is not.
“He has just proved to Nigerians that all these while, he was living a deceitful life and deceiving the general public. The so-called gallantry service he made us to believe was just to distract Nigerians from knowing his real person,”
