El-Rufai: ICPC Chairman should be held responsible for contempt – Lawyer Idam

A ineligible practitioner, Maduabuchi Idam has criticised reports that the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, granted administrative bail to erstwhile Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, aft his arraignment astatine the Federal High Court successful Kaduna.

Idam said the Chairman of ICPC should beryllium held accountable for contempt of court.

In a connection helium issued, Idam described the reported process arsenic some irregular and inconsistent with established ineligible practice, noting that erstwhile a suspect is arraigned, they autumn nether the authorization of the court.

He argued that immoderate merchandise extracurricular a tribunal bid undermines the judicial process.

“Such a procedure, if genuinely undertaken, is not lone incorrect but besides strange,” helium said.

Idam further questioned the legality of what helium described arsenic a merchandise carried retired without tribunal approval, adjacent if done connected compassionate grounds.

“The quality that helium was released ‘extra tribunal order’ connected compassionate grounds is simply a caller invention that has scorned not lone the judicial process but besides the authorization of the court,” helium stated.

He maintained that, successful specified circumstances, the ICPC acts ...