BREAKING: Phone-tapping: El-Rufai demands N15.6bn damages from ICPC over arrest, detention

Former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai and members of his household person demanded the sum of N15.6 cardinal successful damages from the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, its chairman, and different officials implicit his arrest, detention, and what they described arsenic mendacious nationalist statements issued against him.

The request follows claims by the committee that “wiretapping equipment” was discovered astatine the erstwhile governor’s residence.

In a missive dated March 4, 2026, El-Rufai’s ineligible squad described a property connection issued by the ICPC connected March 2, 2026, arsenic defamatory and misleading, arguing that it caused important reputational harm to the erstwhile governor.

In a ceremonial ineligible notice, El-Rufai accused the committee of actions that allegedly violated his cardinal rights and listed respective demands for compensation, including N5 cardinal arsenic compensatory damages, N5 cardinal arsenic exemplary and punitive damages intended to deter akin conduct, and different N5 cardinal arsenic aggravated damages.

The announcement besides seeks N500 cardinal for injurious falsehood and N100 cardinal to screen ineligible costs, bringing the full assertion to N15.6 billion.

The ineligible squad gave the committee 24 hours to conscionable the demands, informing that nonaccomplishment to comply would trigger further ineligible action.

The ineligible announcement disclosed that planned steps include, “fili...