Alleged N64m Fraud: ICPC Set To Arraign 3 Ex-Aides Of El-Rufai

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

This is coming after the 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 a money laundering.

ICPC, in a two-count charge filed before the Federal High Court in Kaduna, accused Sa’idu of accepting a cash payment of N155,000,000 from Ibrahim Muktar, a public officer in the ministry of finance.

The El-Rufai’s ex-appointees are a former senior special adviser/counsellor to El-Rufai, Mr. Lawal Adebisi; the ex-accountant general of Kaduna State, Mr. Umar Waziri, and the former finance commissioner in the state, Mr. Yusuf Inuwa.

Also joined in the suit is Solar Life Nigeria Limited, the company whose bank account is believed to have received the diverted funds.

ICPC spokesperson, Demola Bakare, said in the suit filed at the Federal High Court, Kaduna Judicial Division, ICPC accused Mr. Lawal of conniving with the two other accused persons to divert a total sum of N64,800,562 in three tranches of N10,000,000, N47,840,000, and N7,320,562 to the bank account of Solar Life Nigeria Limited, where Mr. Lawal is believed to be the sole signatory.

The four accused persons are expected to appear in court on Friday, January 17, 2025, to take their plea.