Abba Kyarithe suspended deputy commissioner of police, approached a Federal Superior Court on Thursday to request another bond.
Mr. Kyari and three of his co-defendants, through their lawyer, urged Judge Emeka Nwite to admit that they had been released on bail because their lives in the Kuje Correctional Center, where they are being held in custody, were not safe.
In a resumed hearing, Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), Mr. Kyari’s lawyer and suspended ACP Sunday Ubia, informed the court that a bail application had been filed and served for the first, second, fourth and fifth defendants. National Drug Enforcement and Law Agency (NDLEA).
He said the request was made necessary due to the nature of the work the defendants did in the course of policing the country.
Ikpeazu said that the defendants were in custody with the criminals in the correctional center, whose arrests were made possible through the efforts of the defendants.
The lead attorney said their lives are at risk, hence the need for their bail.
The Nigerian News Agency (NAN) reports that four suspended police officers, including ACP Ubia, ASP Bawa James, Inspector Simon Agirigba and Insp. John Nuhu, listed as the second through fifth defendants respectively, are being charged by the NDLEA with alleged drug offense together with Mr. Kyari.
However, while Messrs. Kyari, Ubia, Agirigba and Nuhu (1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th defendants) applied for bail for alleged threat to their lives, ASP Bawa James , who is the third defendant in the matter, did not.
Meanwhile, the prosecution’s (NDLEA) attorney, Sunday Joseph, objected to the request for bail to be taken, insisting that the matter was scheduled for review of the facts of the sixth and seventh defendants who They pleaded guilty to the preferred charges against them. them.
Chibunna Umeibe and Emeka Ezenwanne (sixth and seventh defendants) were the two suspected drug traffickers arrested at Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu.
Messrs. Umeibe and Ezenwanne have pleaded guilty to five, six and seven counts against them and are in custody at the Suleja Correctional Center.
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