A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, N50m bail.
Kyari was, on Thursday, granted bail by Justice James Omotosho in a charge in which he and two of his siblings, Baba and Ali, were accused of failing to declare their assets to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
Ruling in an application filed by the defendant, Justice Omotosho granted conditional bail to Kyari at the sum of N50m with two sureties in like sum.
The judge added that the sureties must have property worth N25m within the jurisdiction
The court also ordered that Kyari and his sureties should deposit their international passports, statements of accounts, title deeds of the sureties’ properties and recent passport photographs with the court registrar as part of the bail conditions.
Furthermore, the judge subjected the endorsement of Kyari’s release warrant to developments in another case pending before Justice Emeka Nwite wherein Kyari was being tried with four others on drug-related offences.
In granting Kyari’s bail application, Justice Omotosho held that there was no evidence that he was a flight risk and that he would not attend his trial.
