Cocaine trafficking’: Court rejects KC Luxury’s bail application over absence of medical certificate
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‘Cocaine trafficking’: Court rejects KC Luxury’s bail application over absence of medical certificate
The federal high court in Lagos has rejected the bail application of Afolabi Kazeem Michael, a socialite popularly known as KC Luxury, in the alleged cocaine trafficking trial.
In a ruling on Wednesday, Musa Kakaki, the trial judge, held that the socialite’s bail application did not provide sufficient evidence to grant the request.
KC Luxury is standing trial alongside Boniface Freeman Ochoche Sule and Ikechukwu Ekugo Patriarch on a 22-count charge involving allegations of conspiring to export 184.5 kilogrammes of cocaine to the United Kingdom and money laundering.
The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Ruling on the bail application, Kakaki held that there is no medical certificate before the court to support the request for bail.
“There is no medical certificate to warrant the court to grant him bail,” the judge said.
“If there is special medical need for the first defendant, where a suspect claims an illness, an expert in the field would have given an explanation.”
The judge directed officials of the Ikoyi custodial centre to grant the socialite unrestricted access to doctors and medical experts for treatment of any health condition.
The judge also ordered an accelerated hearing of the case and adjourned the case to tNovember 2, 2026, for the commencement of trial.
LAST FRIDAY’S COURT PROCEEDINGS
During the court proceedings on October 23, the socialite was brought to the premises of the court in an ambulance while reportedly receiving oxygen.
A correctional service officer told the court that KC Luxury was “critically ill” and had been hospitalised. The officer called a nurse to testify before the court.
Addressing the court, Bukki Yahya, a nurse attached to the Police Hospital in Falomo, said Michael was admitted to the hospital on October 7, 2026, and diagnosed with asthma and sepsis.
Yahya said Michael was inside the ambulance on the court premises because he was placed on oxygen.
