Lawyer to the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari, Cynthia Ikenna, has revealed that the 46-year-old is suffering from diabetes and hypertension.
Ikenna made the revelation in an application for bail on the ground of ill health.
Ikenna asked the court to release her client who is diabetic and hypertensive on bail, pending the determination of the substantive suit.
She said the substantive matter is a fundamental human rights suit in which Kyari is challenging the allegations against him.
However, Inyang Ekwo, the judge, ordered the applicant to put the respondents on notice.
“Upon studying the process of the applicant and the averments in support of the application, I am of the opinion that the respondents be put on notice so they can answer to the averments. Therefore, the applicant is hereby ordered to put the respondents on notice of all the processes in this matter,” he held.
He adjourned the matter till Thursday for a hearing of the application.
On February 14, the NDLEA declared Kyari wanted “over his involvement in a 25kg cocaine deal”. Hours later, the police announced his arrest and subsequent transfer to the custody of the NDLEA.
The NDLEA’s revelation comes months after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) indicted Kyari of conspiring with Hushpuppi, self-confessed international fraudster, in a $1.1 million scam targeting Qatari businesspeople.
The FBI secured a court order for Kyari’s extradition and arrest over his alleged involvement in the Hushpuppi fraud.
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