ICPC recovers alleged wiretapping device from El-Rufai’s residence

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) said it recovered suspected wiretapping instrumentality allegedly susceptible of intercepting backstage conversations and accessing delicate information documents from the Abuja residence of erstwhile Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai.

According to tribunal filings by the anti-graft agency, the items were retrieved during a hunt conducted astatine El-Rufai’s residence successful the beingness of his wife, Hadiza El-Rufai, and his son, Mohammed Bello.

The committee further alleged that the erstwhile politician declined to cooperate with investigators, choosing to stay soundless until helium is formally arraigned successful court.

It besides claimed that 1 of his aides linked to the probe has fled the country.

The ICPC disclosed the details successful ineligible processes submitted earlier the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, wherever El-Rufai is seeking redress and challenging what helium described arsenic unlawful detention and usurpation of his cardinal quality rights.

The bureau stated that it obtained a 14-day detention bid from a Magistrate Court successful Bwari, FCT, to clasp the erstwhile politician ...