BREAKING: Abba Kyari To Remain In NDLEA Custody As Court Refuses Bail Application
A Federal High Court in Abuja has refused to order the release of the disgraced Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, from the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
Kyari had dragged the government to court over his continued detention by the anti-narcotics agency. In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/182/22, Kyari sought an order of the court to immediately release him or admit him to bail for urgent medical attention.
In a brief ruling, Justice Ekwo declined to order his immediate release but ordered him to put the respondent (FG), on notice. The judge ordered him to go and serve all processes he filed on the Federal Government. He, thereafter, fixed February 24 for the parties to appear before him.
Nigeria News House (NNH) reports that the NDLEA had on February 14, 2022, indicted Kyari in alleged drug trafficking and related offences.
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, subsequently handed over Kyari to the anti-narcotics agency for prosecution after the NDLEA released damning photo and video evidence to nail Kyari.
The NDLEA said Kyari, belonged to a drug cartel that operates the Brazil-Ethiopia-Nigeria illicit drug pipeline.
The police commission had suspended Kyari on July 31, 2021, after the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States indicted the “super cop” for his alleged role in a $1m scam allegedly perpetrated by alleged international Internet fraudster Ramon Abbas, aka, Hushpuppi and five others.
