N1bn El Rufai Suit: Court grants ICPC access to analyse electronic devices

The Federal High Court successful Abuja connected Thursday granted the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) support to entree and analyse physics devices recovered from the residence of erstwhile Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai.

Justice Joyce Abdulmalik approved the bid pursuing an ex-parte question filed by ICPC’s lawyer, Osuobeni Akponimisingha.

The question sought authorization for the committee to inspect, behaviour forensic examinations, and extract information from the devices successful transportation with its ongoing probe into the erstwhile governor.

According to reports by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), ICPC operatives recovered 14 physics devices from El-Rufai’s Abuja residence, including a Sony HD-EGS retention device, ITB Transcend retention device, Toshiba retention device, Samsung and Nokia mobile phones, a Blackberry device, Google IDEOS phone, Samsung retention instrumentality (SPO802N), Remarkable tablet, Apple MacBook Pro, Seagate FreeAgent table outer drive, ZTE mobile phone, 10 flash drives, and a microSD card.

The ex-parte question is portion of lawsuit FHC/ABJ/CS/499/2026, titled Federal Republic of Nigeria vs. Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai. El-Rufai is simultaneously challenging the hunt successful a abstracted suit, seeking N1 cardinal successful damages, nether lawsuit FHC/ABJ/CS/345/2026, filed connected February 20 by Oluwole Iyamu.

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