The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, on Thursday, approached a Federal High Court seeking to be granted bail.
Kyari and three of his co-defendants, through their counsel, urged Justice Emeka Nwite to grant the bail arguing that their lives in the Kuje Correctional Centre are in danger.
At a resumed hearing, Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), counsel to Kyari and suspended ACP Sunday Ubia, said an application seeking for bail for the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th defendants had been filed and served on the National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
He said the application became necessary due to the nature of the work the defendants had done in the course of policing the country.
Ikpeazu said the defendants are being remanded with criminals in the correctional centre, through whom their arrests were made possible.
The senior lawyer said their lives are at risk, hence, the need for their bail.
Four suspended police officers including ACP Ubia, ASP Bawa James, Insp Simon Agirigba and Insp. John Nuhu, listed as 2nd to 5th defendant respectively, are being charged by the
NDLEA for alleged drug offence alongside Kyari.
However, while Kyari, Ubia, Agirigba and Nuhu (1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th defendants), sought bail over the alleged threat to their lives, ASP Bawa James, who is the 3rd defendant in the matter, did not.
Meanwhile, counsel for the prosecution (NDLEA), Sunday Joseph, opposed the request that the bail plea be taken, insisting that the matter was scheduled for review of the facts of the 6th and 7th defendants who pleaded guilty to the counts preferred against them.
Chibunna Umeibe and Emeka Ezenwanne (6th and 7th defendants) are the two alleged drug traffickers arrested at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu.
Umeibe and Ezenwanne, had pleaded guilty to five, six and seven counts preferred against them and are being remanded in Suleja Correctional Centre.
– NAN