El-Rufai sues ICPC, others for N1bn over alleged illegal home search

Former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has filed a N1 cardinal suit against the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and others, alleging an unlawful penetration of his Abuja residence.

In the suit, filed astatine the Federal High Court successful Abuja, El-Rufai is asking the tribunal to state that the hunt warrant utilized to participate his location was invalid.
He described the warrant arsenic “null and void for deficiency of particularity, worldly drafting errors, ambiguity successful execution parameters, overbreadth, and lack of probable cause.”

The erstwhile politician said officers from the ICPC and the Nigeria Police searched his location astatine No. 12 Mambilla Street, Aso Drive, Abuja, connected February 19 astir 2 p.m.
He claimed the cognition violated his law rights to dignity, idiosyncratic liberty, just hearing, and privacy.

He is asking the tribunal to regularisation that immoderate grounds obtained during the hunt cannot beryllium utilized against him successful immoderate probe oregon proceedings due to the fact that it was gathered unlawfully.
He besides seeks an bid compelling the ICPC and the Inspector-General of Police to instantly instrumentality each items taken from his hom...