The Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed the no-case submission filed by suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, and his co-defendants.
In its ruling, the court ordered the defendants to open their respective defences in the drug trafficking and tampering case instituted against them by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
Justice Emeka Nwite, who delivered the ruling, stated that a prima facie case had been established.
Kyari and his co-defendants are accused of tampering with and dealing in hard drugs, specifically Seventeen point fifty-five kilograms of cocaine.
The NDLEA arraigned Kyari and six others in March 2022 on allegations of conspiring to tamper with and traffic Twenty-one point thirty-five kilograms of cocaine seized from suspected drug traffickers.
The case has been adjourned to May 21, for the defendants to begin presenting their defences.
