After 27 months in detention, former commander of the Force Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari, has been granted two weeks bail by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
The grant, D’Gallery gathered, is to give Kyari the chance to go home and complete the burial rites of his mother, Mrs Rachilla Kyari, who died recently.
The court has, however, scheduled Friday, May 31, for the determination of his bail application.
Kyari has been standing trial over drug-related charges filed against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), after his arrest on February 14, 2022 (two years ago.)
In 2022, the Police Service Commission (PSC) suspended Kyari alongside two senior police officers — Sunday Ubua and James Bawa — who were named in a cocaine deal involving Kyari.
“The Police Service Commission suspended assistant commissioner of police, ACP Sunday Ubua and assistant superintendent of police, ASP James Bawa from exercise of the powers and functions of their respective offices with effect from Monday, 14th February 2022,” the PSC said in a statement.
The NDLEA had also declared Kyari wanted over alleged links with an international drug cartel.
Spokesperson for the NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, had alleged that Kyari and his Intelligence Response Team had arrested some drug traffickers who arrived Nigeria from Ethiopia with 25kg of cocaine but cornered 15kg of the seized substance for themselves.
ThisNigeria gathered that following his travails, Kyari could not attend his mother’s burial rites when she passed on recently.
Recall that his mother, Rachilla, died in the early hours of Sunday, May 5, 2024.
She was survived by 10 children, including five males and five females, with Kyari as the eldest son.
Scores of residents of Borno State, ThisNigeria also gathered, turned out in large numbers to pay their respects to Yachilla, who was buried according to Islamic rites on the same day she died.
