A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has rejected the application for bail filed by suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari and Assistant Commissioner of Police, Sunday J. Ubua.
They are charged with five others in relation to offences of unlawful drug dealings.
Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on Monday morning, March 28, 2022, held that the prosecution has placed sufficient materials before the court to warrant the refusal of bail to both senior police officers.
Instead, Justice Nwite granted an accelerated hearing of the case, The Nation reports.
It can be recalled that at the previous sitting, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA in a 21-paragraph counter-affidavit it lodged before the court on Monday, March 14, 2022, insisted that Kyari posed a flight risk.
The agency told the court that Kyari, who hitherto headed the Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT, would escape from the country and make himself unavailable for trial, should he be released from custody.
The NDLEA equally urged the court to deny all the defendants bail and rather okay accelerated hearing of the case.
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