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Suspended DCP Abba Kyari And ACP Sunday Ubia Seek Bail In Court 

On Monday, suspended DCP Abba Kyari and his co-defendant, ACP Sunday Ubia, petitioned the Federal High Court in Abuja for bail.

News Agency of Nigeria

While arguing the bail application, Kyari and Ubia told Justice Emeka Nwite through their counsel, Mahmud Magaji.

Magaji, who stated that the charges against Kyari and Ubia are bailable, also stated that the constitution gives the court the discretion to do so.

However, Joseph Sunday, a director of Prosecution and Legal Services for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), objected to the bail application.

Counsel for other police officers involved in the case also asked the court to give their clients bail.

As at the time of reporting this story, the quarrel was still going on.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on March 1, Justice Inyang Ekwo of an Abuja Federal High Court dismissed Kyari’s bail plea. Justice Ekwo decided that the application had been overtaken by circumstances after a sister court’s judgment, approving the NDLEA’s request to keep Kyari for a further 14 days to allow it to complete its investigation.

In that judgement, the judge stated that the court that issued the order in favor of NDLEA on February 22 was a court of coordinating jurisdiction.

He did, however, say he was inclined to hear Kyari’s basic enforcement rights complaint with the urgency it merits after the 14-day court order expired, and he deferred the case to March 15.

According to NAN, Justice Zainab Abubakar of the Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the agency’s request to keep Kyari and other individuals involved to the suspected drug trafficking for an additional 14 days in order to finish its investigation.

According to NAN, Kyari, via his counsel, petitioned the court on February 21 with an ex parte application and originating summons requesting bail and urging the court to enforce his fundamental human rights, which he said had been violated by wrongful arrest and imprisonment.

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