The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has announced plans to arraign three former appointees of Nasir El-Rufai, ex-Kaduna State governor, on charges of money laundering involving N64 million.
In a statement issued on Thursday by Demola Bakare, the Commission’s director of public enlightenment and education, the ICPC revealed that the accused include Lawal Shakiru Olajimi Adebisi, a former senior special adviser to El-Rufai; Umar Waziri, the state’s former accountant-general; and Yusuf Inuwa, former finance commissioner.
Also named in the case is Solar Life Nigeria Limited, a company whose account allegedly served as the destination for the misappropriated funds.
The ICPC disclosed that the suit, filed at the Federal High Court in Kaduna, accuses the three officials of diverting N64,800,562 in three separate transactions.
The funds, disbursed in tranches of N10 million, N47.8 million, and N7.32 million, were allegedly funneled into the bank account of Solar Life Nigeria Limited, where Lawal is purportedly the sole signatory.
The four accused persons are scheduled to appear in court on January 17, 2025, to enter their pleas.
This development comes shortly after the ICPC arraigned Muhammad Bashir Sa’idu, a former chief of staff and commissioner of finance in Kaduna State, in a separate money laundering case.
Sa’idu is accused of accepting a cash payment of N155 million from Ibrahim Muktar, an official in the state’s Ministry of Finance.
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