The hope of a suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, of being urgently released from the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has been dashed by a Federal High Court in Abuja.
This was as the court on Monday refused to grant the bail application of the embattled cop.
Kyari had through his lawyer on February 21, approached the court to seek bail.
Among other things, he told the court that he was suffering from diabetes and hypertension and should be granted bail to enable him to attend to his health issues.
However, in his ruling on the application on Monday, the presiding judge, Justice Inyang Ekwo, held that the application had been overtaken by events following an order of a sister court, which granted the NDLEA prayers to detain Kyari for another 14 days to enable it conclude its investigation.
According to Justice Ekwo, the sister court, which gave the order in favour of NDLEA on February 22, was a court of coordinate jurisdiction.
The judge, therefore, said he was inclined to hear Kyari’s fundamental enforcement rights suit with the urgency it deserves after the expiration of the 14-day court order.
He then adjourned until March 15 to hear Kyari’s application to demand his fundamental right enforcement