Court dismisses El-Rufai’s suit seeking to stop ICPC, others from freezing his assets

The Federal High Court successful Abuja connected Thursday dismissed a suit filed by erstwhile Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai seeking an bid restraining the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, and others from freezing his slope accounts.

Other respondents successful the suit included the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Department of State Services, DSS, and Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, sued arsenic 2nd to 4th respondents respectively.

Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, successful a judgment, dismissed the suit for being an maltreatment of tribunal process due to the fact that the erstwhile politician had filed a akin suit successful the FCT High Court.

The justice agreed with the arguments of the ICPC, EFCC, DSS and AGF that a tribunal of instrumentality cannot beryllium utilized by immoderate national to forestall instrumentality enforcement agencies from performing their statutory duties.

The justice held that the suit was speculative successful quality and lacked merit.

She besides agreed that the lawsuit did not disclose immoderate tenable origin of enactment against the EFCC, DSS and AGF, and subsequently struck retired their names from the suit.

The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that El-Rufai, successful the originating process marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/368/2026, prayed the tribunal to restrain the respondents from taking immoderate measurement to frost his slope accounts ...