The hope of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Abba Kyari, regaining his freedom has been dashed by the Appeal Court.

The Court dismissed his appeal stressing that it lacks merit.

Justice Stephen Adah read the unanimous judgement of a three-man panel, held that given the nature of the charges pending against Kyari and others before the trial court, such requests for bail needed to be handled with caution.

He held that Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja, who earlier rejected bail to Kyari, appropriately exercised his discretion in refusing to grant Kyari bail.

Kyari, former Head of Intelligence Response Team, IRT, is facing prosecution from anti drug agency, NDLEA, alongside three others that included; ACP Sunday J. Ubua, ASP Bawa James, Inspector Simon Agirgba and Inspector John Nuhu were charged before a Federal High Court in Abuja with conspiracy to deal in 17.55kg of cocaine.

They were also charged with dealing in cocaine without lawful authority; conspiracy to tamper with cocaine and unlawfully tampering with the 21.35kg of cocaine seized from two convicted drug dealers.