Abba Kyari, the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police
(DCP), on Thursday, approached a Federal High Court for another bail plea.
Kyari and three of his co-defendants, through their counsel,
urged Justice Emeka Nwite to admit them to bail because their lives in the Kuje
Correctional Centre, where they are being remanded, were unsafe.
At a resumed hearing, Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, counsel to Kyari
and suspended ACP Sunday Ubia, informed that an application seeking bail for
the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th defendants had been filed and served on the National
Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), NAN reports.
He said the application became necessary due to the nature
of the work the defendants had done in the course of policing the country.
Ikpeazu said the defendants are being remanded with
criminals in the correctional centre, who through them, their arrests were made
possible.
The senior lawyer said their lives are at risk, hence, the
need for their bail.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that four suspended
police officers including ACP Ubia, ASP Bawa James, Insp Simon Agirigba and
Insp. John Nuhu, listed as 2nd to 5th defendant respectively, are being charged
by the NDLEA for an alleged drug offence alongside Kyari.
However, while Kyari, Ubia, Agirigba and Nuhu (1st, 2nd, 4th
and 5th defendants), sought bail over the alleged threats to their lives, ASP
Bawa James, who is the 3rd defendant in the matter, did not.
Meanwhile, counsel for the prosecution (NDLEA), Sunday
Joseph, opposed the request that the bail plea is taken, insisting that the
matter was scheduled for review of the facts of the 6th and 7th defendants who
pleaded guilty to the counts preferred against them.
Chibunna Umeibe and Emeka Ezenwanne (6th and 7th defendants)
were the two alleged drug traffickers that were arrested at the Akanu Ibiam
International Airport in Enugu.
Umeibe and Ezenwanne, had pleaded guilty to five, six and
seven counts preferred against them and are being remanded in Suleja
Correctional Centre.
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