El-Rufai files fresh N10bn suit against ICPC over family access

Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has filed a caller N10 cardinal suit against the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) implicit alleged restrictions connected his household members visiting him successful custody.

The suit, filed astatine the Federal High Court successful Abuja connected August 13, seeks to enforce what El-Rufai described arsenic his cardinal rights portion successful detention.

El-Rufai, done his lawyer, Ubong Akpan, alleged that ICPC officials stopped his wife, Aichatou Asabe, and his son, Abba El-Rufai, from visiting him.

He besides joined the ICPC president and the Attorney-General of the Federation arsenic defendants successful the case.

The erstwhile politician is asking the tribunal to state that his law rights stay protected contempt his detention. He alleged that denying his household entree to him, peculiarly erstwhile they wanted to supply food, medicine and different necessities, was unlawful.

El-Rufai besides accused ICPC officers of physically restraining and intimidating his woman and lad connected July 7. He described the incidental arsenic an unjustified interference with his household relationships.

He asked the tribunal to state that “the respondents’ continued denial of household entree without lawful authorization is unconstitutional, illegal, null and void.”

He besides wants the tribunal to bid the ICPC to springiness him “unhindered and tenable entree t...