Federal High Court Abuja has declined granting bail to suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari and two other senior police officers facing trial for drug-related charges.
Justice Emeka Nwite in a ruling held that the defendants had not brought any evidence in court to warrant the court’s discretion.
The trial judge held that the court must exercise its discretion judiciously and in this case it cannot grant bail to the defendants.
At yesterday’s proceedings, the presiding judge ruled that Kyari’s application lacked merit.
He held that Kyari failed to establish any exceptional circumstance that should warrant the exercise of judicial discretion in his favour.
The trial judge said the court had earlier dismissed a similar bail application that was brought before it and ordered an accelerated hearing of the case.
He said no evidence was shown to convince the court why it should depart from its earlier ruling.
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This ruling is coming about three weeks after Kyari was granted temporarily bail for two weeks on passionate grounds, to the tune of N50 million and a surety in like sum to enable him attend to his late mother’s burial rites.
The court had on two previous rulings, denied the defendants bail, even as it ordered their remand at Kuje prison.
