Abba Kyari, a former commander of the Intelligence Response Team, and a Deputy Commissioner of Police had assets which he failed to declare earlier which has been discovered by the Federal Government. These are 14 assets, including shopping malls, residential estate, polo playground, lands and farmland scattered in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and Maiduguri, Borno State.
The Government came across his over N207m and N17,598 in his various accounts in GTB, UBA and Sterling Bank. J. Sunday, the Director of Prosecution and Legal Services, on behalf of the Federal Government, filed fresh 24-count charges, with charge number FHC/ABJ/CR/408/22 at the Federal High Court, Abuja, against Kyari dated August 30, 2022. On the document, the Attorney-General of the Federation stated that Kyari allegedly failed to disclose that the assets were his.Kyari’s former deputy, Sunday Ubua, a suspended Assistant Commissioner of Police also had 24-count charges against him.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA )had earlier marked six residential houses and one plaza in Maiduguri belonging to the former IRT commander.The two-storey shopping plaza, Assurance Plaza, located along the Giwa Barracks Road in Maiduguri, has about 100 stores.Six other residential houses within the Maiduguri New Government Residential Area allegedly belonging to Kyari were also marked by the NDLEA, 48 hours after a suspected drug dealer linked to the N3 billion worth of tramadol intercepted by the then Kyari-led IRT team was arrested by operatives of the NDLEA in Lagos. 
The charges also said the former IRT commander did not make full disclosure of his ownership of farmland along Abuja-Kaduna road and a plaza under construction in Guzape, Abuja.Count 11 read, ‘’That you, DCP Abba Kyari, male, adult and you Mohammed Kyari, male, adult, on or about February 14, 2022, in Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this honourable court to disguise the true owner of the property situate at plot no. 33, Bama Road, GRA Extension, Maiduguri, Borno State, covered by certificate no. BO/4319 issued by Borno State Government by deposing to a false affidavit at the Federal High Court in suit no. FHC/NG/Cs/9/2022 and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 18(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended) and punishable under section 15(3)(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011, (as amended).’’
The Federal Government said Kyari knowingly failed to make full disclosure of his asset at plot no 1927 Blue Fountain Estate, Karsana, Abuja and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 35(3)(a) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act, CAP N30, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.The prosecutor also alleged that the embattled DCP did not declare his ownership of an estate at Linda Chaulker Road, Asokoro Extension; plot no. 5 titled BO/4546; plot no. 9 titled BO/1037; plot no. 10 titled CER/4319 and plot no 33 titled BO/4319, Maiduguri, Borno State.
