The request for bail by an associate of the embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, who has been in detention over his alleged culpability in drug peddling was on Friday declined by the Court of Appeal in Abuja.
The Assistant Commissioner of Police, Sunday Ubua is an associate of Abba Kyari and he is being prosecuted alongside Kyari by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
Despite being suspended from service, Ubua sough to be admitted to bail, but in a judgment on Friday by a three-member panel of the appellate court, it was held that the appeal by Ubua was without merit and affirmed the ruling by Justice Nwite, delivered on March 28, 2022.
The March 28 judgement rejected Ubua’s application for bail on the grounds that the prosecution placed sufficient materials before the court to warrant its rejection of the bail application.
Justice Stephen Adah, in the lead judgment, held that the appellant did not present any new materials before the court to warrant the court’s departure from the earlier decision on the issue by Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Ubua is standing trial with Kyari and three other former members of the Intelligence Response Team, Force Investigation and Intelligence Department of the Nigeria Police Force on charges bordering on unlawful dealing in drugs and attempting to tamper with evidence.
