Liberia, Aug. 7 -- Monrovia-Former Liberia National Police Highway Patrol Commander Wadell W. Kwabo, one of the highest-ranking security officials to be criminally charged in Liberia's largest cocaine trafficking investigation, has formally petitioned Criminal Court "C" at the Temple of Justice for bail, arguing that prosecutors have failed to establish sufficient evidence linking him to the multi-million-dollar drug trafficking operation that has shaken the country's security establishment.

Kwabo, who was dismissed from the Liberia National Police by President Joseph Nyuma Boakai following the findings of a Joint National Security Investigative Task Force, is accused of using official police resources to facilitate the movement of an es...