The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, his former Senior Special Adviser and Counsellor, Jimi Lawal, and five others on an amended 11-count charge bordering on alleged corruption, money laundering and related offences.
In a statement published on its website on Thursday, the ICPC said the defendants were arraigned before Justice Hauwa’u Buhari of the Federal High Court, Kaduna, in Charge No. FHC/KD/93C/2026.
According to the commission, the amended charge names El-Rufai as the first defendant alongside Lawal, Singularity Network Security Limited, Solar Life Nigeria Limited, Knowledge Investment Nigeria Limited, Intercellular Nigeria Limited and Noble Coast Resources Limited.
The anti-graft agency also listed Bashir El-Rufai, identified as an elder brother of the former governor and currently at large, in one of the counts.
The ICPC alleged that El-Rufai, while serving as governor of Kaduna State, approved the award of a contract for the procurement, survey planning, final design and installation of a Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance system in Kaduna metropolis valued at N8.68 billion to Singularity Network Security Limited, a company it claimed lacked the required experience and qualifications.
