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The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed a fresh application for bail for the detained Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, who is facing a drug trafficking charge.
Justice Emeka Nwite, on Wednesday, held that the application lacked merit, stressing that Kyari failed to establish any exceptional circumstance that would warrant the exercise of judicial discretion in his favour.
The judge noted that the trial court had earlier dismissed a similar bail application and instead ordered an accelerated hearing of the case, adding that no evidence was adduced to convince the court to depart from its earlier ruling.
Consequently, the court refused the application and gave the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, the nod to proceed with the prosecution of both Kyari and his co-defendants in the matter.
The court had granted the suspect a temporary bail about a month ago to enable him to participate in the burial rites of his mother.
It had specified a maximum period of two weeks and mandated him to pay a bail bond to the tune of N50 million with a surety in the like sum.
Kyari and his co-accused are standing trial for allegedly tampering with 21.25kilograms worth of cocaine that they seized from the two convicted drug traffickers, Chibunna Patrick Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus Ezenwane, as well as dealing in cocaine worth 17.55kg.
