The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is preparing to arraign three former appointees of the former governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, in a new money laundering case involving 64 million naira.
The individuals charged include Mr Lawal Shakiru Olajimi Adebisi, who served as a Senior Special Adviser/Counsellor to El-Rufai; Mr Umar Waziri, the former Accountant General of Kaduna State; and Mr Yusuf Inuwa, the former Finance Commissioner.
Also named in the suit is Solar Life Nigeria Limited, the company believed to have received the misappropriated funds through its bank account.
In the suit filed at the Federal High Court in the Kaduna Judicial Division, ICPC accuses Mr Lawal of colluding with the other two defendants to divert a total sum of 64,800,562 naira (Sixty-Four Million, Eight Hundred Thousand, Five Hundred and Sixty-two Naira) in three separate transactions: 10,000,000 nairas, 47,840,000 nairas, and 7,320,562 naira.
It is alleged that Mr Lawal is the sole signatory to the bank account of Solar Life Nigeria Limited.
The four defendants are scheduled to appear in court on Friday, January 17, 2025, to enter their pleas.
Additionally, it is worth noting that last week, ICPC charged the former Chief of Staff and Commissioner of Finance in Kaduna State, Alhaji Muhammad Bashir Sa’idu, in a separate money laundering case.
In a two-count charge also filed before the Federal High Court in Kaduna, ICPC accused Sa’idu of accepting a cash payment of N155,000,000 from Ibrahim Muktar, a public officer in the Ministry of Finance.
