The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Monday, urged the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to deny the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, bail.
The NDLEA opposed Kyari’s bail request, on a day his wife, Ramatu,
collapsed in court.
The agency, in a 21-paragraph counter-affidavit it lodged before the
court, insisted that Kyari posed a flight risk.
It told the court that Kyari, who hitherto headed the Police Intelligence
Response Team, IRT, would excape from the country and make himself
unavailable for trial, should he be released from custody.
While adopting the counter-affidavit before trial Justice Emeka Nwite on
Monday, the NDLEA, through its Director, Prosecution & Legal
Services, Joseph Sunday, maintained that the former IRT boss has
tremendous influence in the Nigeria Police, insisting that he has the
capacity to interfere with its witnesses.
NDLEA added that one of Kyari’s alleged accomplices, ASP John
Umoru a.k.a Too Much Money, has absconded.
However, Kyari, in his bail application that was moved by Mr. Mahmud
Magaji, SAN, prayed the court to grant him bail on liberal conditions.
Arguing that the charge against him contained bailable offences, the
embattled DCP, urged the court to invoke the powers donated to it by
the 1999 Constitution, as amended, to exercise discretion in his favour.
