ICPC TO ARRAIGN EL-RUFAI’S EX-APPOINTEES OVER ALLEGED N64M FRAUD

Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is set to arraign three ex-appointees of former Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, in a fresh N64 million money-laundering suit.

The ex-appointees are a former Senior Special Adviser/Counsellor to the former governor, Mr Lawal Shakiru Olajimi Adebisi; the ex-accountant general of Kaduna State, Mr Umar Waziri; and the former Finance Commissioner, Mr Yusuf Inuwa, .

Also joined in the suit is Solar Life Nigeria Limited, the company, whose bank account was believed to have received the diverted fund. In the suit filed at the Federal High Court, Kaduna Judicial Division, the ICPC is accusing Lawal of conniving with the two other accused persons to divert the total sum of N64,800,562 in three tranches of N10,000,000,00; N47,840,000.00 and N7,320,562.00 to the bank account of Solar Life Nigeria limited, where Lawal is believed to be the sole signatory.

The four accused persons are expected to appear in court tomorrow to take their plea. Recall that ICPC had, last week, in a separate charge arraigned the former Chief of Staff and Commissioner of Finance in Kaduna State, Alhaji Muhammad Bashir Sa’idu, for money laundering.

ICPC, in a two-count charge also filed before the Federal High Court in Kaduna, accused Saidu of accepting a cash payment of N155,000,000 from Ibrahim Muktar, a public officer in the Ministry of Finance.