Court grants ICPC’s request to access devices recovered from El-Rufai’s house

Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, gave the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the go-ahead to access and analyse the electronic devices recovered from the residence of former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai.

The judge granted the order following an ex-parte motion moved by ICPC’s lawyer, Osuobeni Akponimisingha, to the effect.

Akponimisingha, had in a motion, sought an order granting the commission the permission to access and analyse contents of the devices for inspection, forensic examination and forensic extraction of data in furtherance of its ongoing investigation of the ex-governor.

The ICPC operatives recovered 14 sets of electric devices during a search on the ex-governor’s Abuja home.

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The devices include a Sony HD-EGS storage device, a ITB transcend storage device, Toshiba storage device, Samsung mobile phone, Nokia mobile phone – N958GB, Blackberry mobile phone device and a Google IDEOS phone.

Others are a Samsung storage device-SPO802N, Remarkable tablet, Apple MacBook Pro – black, Seagate Freeagent desk external drive, ZTE mobile phone, 10 pieces of flash drives and Microcell memory card.

El-Rufai is currently before the same court, challenging the search of his house and demanded N1 billion compensation.

In the fundamental rights enforcement suit, the former governor named ICPC, the Chief Magistrate at the Magistrate’s Court of the FCT, Abuja; the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) as  respondents.

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