Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari will continue his sojourn in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) despite being granted N50 million bail.
Kyari was granted N50 million bail by Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on the premise that Kyari did not escape Kuje Prisons when he had the chance to do so during an attack on the Prison on July 5, 2022.
But the court further ruled that Kyari’s freedom was subject to development in a sister-case in which he is being tried with four others on alleged involvement in dealing with illicit drugs.
Subsequently, Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja, who is handling the charge refused to grant bail to Kyari and his co-defendants.
Kyari is being prosecuted before Justice Nwite on cocaine-related charges alongside four members of his former police unit, the Intelligence Response Unit (IRT).
