Abba Kyari, the suspended deputy commissioner of police confronting preliminary over supposed drug dealing, has asked the Abuja High Court to deliver him on bail, demanding that his life is in peril at the Kuje Correctional Center.
Kyari presented the defense through his group of legal counselors drove by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu,
In the mean time, the government high court has fixed Wednesday to hear the new bail application that was brought before by Kyari.
However the court had before denied him bail, Kyari, who until now headed the Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT, said he was constrained to make the new solicitation, inferable from the new event at the Kuje jail office.
It will be reviewed that psychological oppressors had on July 5, broke into Kuje jail in Abuja and liberated many prisoners that incorporates claimed Boko Haram individuals.
It was accounted for that a portion of the radicals that attacked the jail, put forth frenzied attempts to find Kyari’s cell.
Kyari had on May 24 when his preliminary came up, let the court know that he felt hazardous at the jail office, claiming that he was being remanded with solidified crooks.
His legal counselor, Ikpeazu, said the new application for the court to reevaluate the solicitation his client prior made for bail forthcoming the assurance of the charge against him, became vital, taking into account the idea of tasks he embraced while playing out his obligations as a cop.
He let the court know that a portion of the prisoners on remand at the Kuje Correctional Center, were individuals that Kyari’s group at the Police IRT, made their capture conceivable.
Beside DCP Kyari, three other cops that are similarly being investigated over the supposed offense-ACP Sunday J. Ubia, Insp. Simon Agirigba and Insp. John Nuhu-likewise asked the court to approve their delivery on abandon security ground.
The third litigant regarding this situation, Bawa James, who is an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, didn’t go along with them in the application.
The NDLEA, through its Director of Legal Services, Mr. Sunday Joseph, encouraged the court to deny the Defendants’ new solicitation for bail.
In the interim, the NDLEA on Monday, opened its argument against the Defendants by introducing its most memorable observer under the steady gaze of the court.
The observer, Mrs Patricia Afolabi, let the court know that she is a Commander of Nacotics joined to the measurable unit of the organization, adding that aspect of her responsibilities determination includes getting and leading scientific examination on drug shows.
She let the court know that she had on February 7, got from the measurable contact official of the organization, Abubakar Aliyu, one fixed straightforward proof pack that contained 24 apportioning pack each.
As per the observer, every one of the recreation area, contained white substance estimated at 0.5grams.
She said the bundle likewise contained a solicitation structure for investigation.
“From the examination I directed, which I named show A-X, I figured out that 21 of the displays contained cocaine, while show H to G were viewed as negative.
“I then gave an examination report of my discoveries, which I marked and fixed. I repacked them as displays in an enormous envelope and addressed it to the official in control at NDLEA Abuja”, the observer expressed.
Preliminary Justice Emeka Nwite conceded every one of the displays in proof without complaint from the Defendants.
While being questioned Kyari’s legal counselor, the observer, said it was not actually the case that each suspect in a medication bargain should be available before such examination could be led.
She said it was not standard that all suspects would be available when substances are additionally given over for examination.
Proceeding, the observer, who said she has more than 30 years experience, said: “I was absent when the medication was recuperated. I was absent when NDLEA got it”.
She affirmed that NDLEA agents are positioned in all passage focuses in Nigeria, including at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu.
Inquired as to whether she knew whether it was NDLEA that recuperated the cocaine at the Airport in Enugu, the observer, said she didn’t know.
“I don’t have any idea who recuperated the substance. I didn’t interact with any of them”, she added.
The court dismissed further interrogation of the observer till Tuesday.
The NDLEA claimed that Kyari and his men, unlawfully altered 21.25kilograms worth of cocaine that they seized from two caught drug dealers Chibunna Patrick Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus Ezenwane, even as it additionally blamed them for managing in cocaine worth 17.55kg.
It claimed that the cops committed the offense between January 19 and 25, 2022, at the workplace of Inspector-General of Police (IGP) IRT, Abuja, in conspiracy with one ASP John Umoru (presently on the loose), in opposition to segment 14(b) of the NDLEA Act, CAP N30 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.
Plus, Kyari, was said to have endeavored to pay off a senior official of the NDLEA with $61, 400. 00 at a café in Abuja to forestall the testing of part of the cocaine that was seized from the two captured drug pushers.
Both Umeibe and Ezenwanne, who were refered to as sixth and seventh Defendants in the charge checked FHC/ABJ/57/2022, were captured at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu while endeavoring to carry cocaine into the country.
They had on March 7, when they were summoned close by Kyari, confessed to the medication dealing charge.
Subsequently, the court, on June 14, condemned them to two years detainment in accordance with a request deal understanding they went into with the NDLEA.
