Award winning police officer, Abba Kyari,is the Officer in charge of Special Anti Robbery Squad, Ikeja, Lagos state, a position he has held for almost two years with several achievements in his kitty.
Considering what Anti Robbery Squad  is doing in Lagos state and other South West states in terms of combating crime in the last one year, one would agree that they have done phenomenally well in discharging their duty.

One of the prominent cases, Abba Kyari, has dealt with it  this year, was the kidnapping case of the mother of the present Minister of Finance, Dr.  Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala in Delta state, among other kidnappings. It was on these bases that the Commissioner Of Police, CP Umar Manko, directed the O/C SARS, SP Abba Kyari to go after the gang leader called Marvelous and his cohorts.
Kyari, on his detective strategy, expanded his tracking network that led to the arrest of the gang leader, one Jide Ojo a.k.a  Marvelous, Buhari Hamadola, Hassan Oseni, Micheal Ojeabulu, Endurance Eke and Ibrahim Abubakar.

They were all nabbed from Edo, Rivers, Delta and Anambra state respectively on April 2,2013.
Upon their arrest,all the suspects made confessional statements to have participated in the Kidnapping of the Finance Minister,Mrs Ngozi Okojo Iweala and several other kidnapping cases including the most recent one, where they killed one victim,an elderly woman,Mrs Regina Obi Dainty.
Another high profile robbery incident the Lagos residents would not forget in a hurry was the broad  day light robbery at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos state.

This unfortunate incident happened on the 13th of March,2013,where two police men and one of the armed robber were killed with cash running into millions of local and foreign currency was carted away.          SP Abba Kyari and his men through diligent analysis tracking, arrested three of the robbers namely; Olanrewaju John a.k.a Pastor, Okunola Saheed and Saheed Adekunle, who were arrested in Lagos and Ikire, Osun state, respectively.

On their arrest, they confessed to the crime which led to their hideout in a thick forest in Agoro area In Odogbolu Local Government area of Ogun state, where the following arms and ammunitions were recovered; Five AK-47 rifles,54 AK-47 Magazines all loaded with 30 rounds of live ammunitions.      That is not all, also recovered from them was 4 dynamites, two locally made pistol with three cartridges concealed in an iron bus buried in the bush.

Two Toyota Sienna Space Buses with Reg No BDG 918 AG and AAA 984 AJ used for the airport operation. Six more gang members, Kazeem Aderibigbe, Ibrahim Abdulahi, Toba Adeniyi, Felix Sunday, Esho, Chimobi, were subsequently arrested.
Some time in September last year at a GT Bank, on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, one Yahaya  Aminu Dutse, a staff of Dangote Group of Company and cousin to Aliko Dangote, went to the bank to withdraw money from his ATM account.

Suddenly, about four men emerged and kidnapped him and put him inside his kia Cerato car and took him to an unknown destination. And sooner the kidnappers started demanding for the sum of 150 dollars.
The O/C SARS,SP Abba Kyari and SP Aisha Haruna, the DPO of Ikoyi Station, quickly swung into action and deployed their operatives to Ajah. After several plots by the kidnappers, one of they came with a Bajaj Motorcycle to collect the ransom from the operatives who has disguised to be relative of the victims and was arrested.
Thereafter, two other gang members were tracked to Ajao Estate area by the SP Abba Kyari where they were subsequently arrested,making the total of three. Two pistol and 17 cartridges recovered. 
On August 1,2013,after many years of follow up and diligent investigation, Abba Kyari led a team of detectives to Ibadan, Oyo state, where one Abiodun Egunjobi, better known as Godododo, the leaders of the robber, terrorizing South West was arrested.

 Egunjobi was nabbed in his mansion at Olowu area of Egbeda L G A in Ibadan Oyo state with two Ak-47 rifles,ten Ak-47 magazines fully loaded and a police bullet proof vest. Egunjobi and his group, was reportedly said to have killed well over fifty policemen and several  civilians. Shortly before his arrest, he was said to have killed the owner of 04 Hotel in Ajah, Lagos along with his six other occupants including two policemen and robbed several other places in Lagos.
Abiodun was also said to have led a bank robbery in Kwara,Osun, Ekiti,Ondo and Oyo states. The Sars operatives has arrested over thirty of this gang members and had also recovered large chunk of arms and ammunitions from them.

After their arrest, the Ajah residents and its environs as well as Lagos state  and the whole South west states now have an euphoric sigh of release after the  capture of this deadly armed robbery bandits. On 24 of June, based on a painstaking follow up, surveillance and tracking of a Ghana based Nigerian armed robbers/kidnappers operating in full military uniforms armed with AK-47 rifles and who had earlier kidnapped the chairman, Ejigbo L G A in Lagos, Hon Kehinde Bamgbetan.

Kyari, acting on a GPS obtained from a car tracking data of a victim kidnapped in June 9,2013,led a team of crack detectives to Edu Village, Agbara, Ogun state where the deadly kidnappers were apprehended. During the search of the camp, four Ak-47 rifles,28 Ak-47 magazines fully loaded with thirty rounds of live ammunitions were recovered.

Charms, Army uniforms as well as their operational vehicles were recovered. A victim of the kidnappers, an Indian nationale, one Mr. Vivex Changrani, who was earlier kidnapped by the gang at Ikoyi area of Lagos was successfully rescued from their camp without any injury.

On Kyari 's further revelations, on 12 of June 2013,a radio message intercepted from Police Control Room confirmed that a group of hoodlums struck and snatched a Honda Odyssey Space Wagon at gun point along Abeokuta street, Ebute- Metta, Lagos and subsequent attack on Policemen attached to Adeniji Adele Division at Idumagbo, Lagos on June 14.  The Sars swung into action and laid a siege at Eko Bridge where they were nabbed. Five of the bandits were fatally wounded while few escaped with bullet wounds.  Two automatic pump action guns,f ifty live cartridges, three AK-47 magazines, three locally made pistol and several expensive phones from their operational vehicle, an Honda Odyssey car, which they had earlier snatched for the purpose of the operation.

Abba's gallantry performance continued to rise on monthly bases.  On the 16th of June, Kyari received an information that a deadly armed robber, Mustapha Owolabi, aka, Gbebo, whose gang terrorizing Lagos and neighboring states, resides at Alagbado area of Lagos. A team of crack sars operatives swung into action and arrested the said Owolabi, who on interrogation confessed to series of armed robbery operations within Lagos and Ogun states.
During the operation, two AK-47 rifles, seven AK-47 magazines fully loaded, one hundred and eighteen rounds of live AK-47 rifle ammunition, three singles barrel pistols and double barrel pistols were recovered from the gang.

On a tip off, SP Abba Kyari, arrested a human parts dealers, identified as Jamiu Adeleke. The 40 year old man was nabbed by sars operatives in Owode town,Ogun state with a human hand that he was about selling for twenty one thousand naira. Jamiu confessed that one Sanni Kazeem sold the human hand for him at the rate of N6000.
When Sanni was arrested he confessed that he had supplied two human heads to a dealer, named as Akiwowo Fatai,who was equally arrested.  Akiwowo confessed receiving the two human heads and also four heads from another supplier, identified as Agboola Kolawole.

The O/C SARS has also doubled efforts by sending more detectives to these environs to arrest the remaining suspects at large. On April this year,Abba,on a tip off heard that some gang of deadly armed robbers were at Orisunbare street in Ayobo area of Lagos, preparing for an operation. A team of detectives led by O/C SARS, Kyari swung into action where one Kazeem Adebola was arrested. After the invasion of the SARS,AK-47 rifles, seventeen magazines loaded with rounds each concealed in one Honda Civic Saloon car.

On 28th September,2012,information rife that about a deadly armed robbery gang based at IIemba Hausa Ajagbandi, was received by SP Abba Kyari, the O/C SARS Lagos, immediately, Kyari, led a team to the area and after some grueling hours, arrested the following suspects, Uche okeagbu, Chinonso Nwuagwu, Emmanuel and shockingly recovered the following arms,9 AK-47, two General Purpose Machine Guns(GPMG),one rocket propelled grenade launcher, two hundred and twenty five AK-47 magazines and 260 GPMG live ammunition and five dynamites with a detonator.

In addition, two modified Volks Wagen buses with registration numbers LSD 467 AR and AGL 506 KB with fake chasis that served as arms converyors and armories for the robbers were recovered.            However, on the 20th january,2013,in a follow up to the tracking of th armed robbers that struck in Elemero area of Lagos, four police men were killed.  Information was later received that six of the armed robbers have gathered at a beer parlour at Oyewole street Agege in preparations for a robbery operation, detectives from Sars led by Abba Kyari led the team and laid a seige.
At end of the gun duel, the bandits identified as Sodiq, Tohib Adio and Yusuf Lekan were fatally wounded. Two AK-47 rifles, five AK47 rifle magazines all loaded and one local made pistol with eighteen live cartridges were recovered.

All these and many more achievements, the Borno state born military brass has achieved in his few years in the helms of affair of Special Anti Robbery Squad, Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command.  
The cool and collected Kyari had his tertiary education at the University of Maiduguri, Borno State. The Geography graduate  served several capacities in the Nigerian Police Force before his present position as Officer in Charge Special Anti Robbery squad.
Aside the Gallantry and Service Excellence Award by Governor Of Lagos state of 2011/2012,he was few months ago honored Inspector. General Of Police Commendation Award for Courage of 2013 and2012 respectively.