The previous governor is looking for N10 billion in damages, alleging that the fee averted his spouse, Aichatou Asabe, and son, Abba El-Rufai, from visiting him whilst he was once in custody.
He additionally requested the court docket to claim that his elementary rights beneath Section IV of the 1999 Charter, as amended, stay safe regardless of his detention.
In its reaction, the ICPC and its chairman denied the allegations in El-Rufai’s supporting affidavit.
John Uche, a Leader Anti-Corruption Assistant within the fee’s Inner Safety Enhance Unit, stated El-Rufai was once being held lawfully beneath an order issued by way of the Federal Top Court docket in Kaduna in case quantity FHC/KD/73C/2025.
Uche mentioned that the fee facilitated a clinical seek advice from for El-Rufai on July 7, in keeping with a court docket order permitting get right of entry to to his non-public doctor. He stated the seek advice from was once accompanied by way of ICPC officials and El-Rufai’s spouse.
In keeping with him, the fee later won reviews that the medical institution seek advice from had allegedly was a political assembly, in violation of its safety procedures.
He stated the improvement induced the ICPC to introduce brief restrictions on visits whilst it reviewed its safety preparations.
Uche additionally alleged that El-Rufai’s son, Abba, got here to the fee’s workplace on July 7 to seek advice from his father however was once denied access. He claimed that Abba therefore lay in a gutter and time and again rubbed his leg in opposition to its edge.
The officer maintained that the fee’s CCTV device recorded actions inside of and round its premises and that the recordings had no longer been altered.
He additional alleged that Asabe was once introduced into the ICPC premises via an unauthorised association on July 4, at about 7:35pm, after reputable visiting hours. In keeping with him, some fee officials had been concerned and are dealing with disciplinary motion.
The ICPC stated it quickly suspended Asabe’s visits as a result of her alleged forget for get right of entry to procedures offered a safety chance.
In an software filed on September 9, El-Rufai requested the court docket to reserve the fee to provide all the, unedited CCTV recordings overlaying June 7, July 4 and July 7.
He argued that the 3 clips submitted by way of the ICPC, titled “The Scuffle,” “The Son Being Taken Away” and “Unauthorised Access,” didn’t determine that the fee had disclosed the whole thing captured by way of its cameras.
He additionally asked customer registers, access and go out data, and different paperwork when it comes to visits by way of his spouse and different members of the family from June 7 till the date of the court docket order.
As well as, he sought permission to query Sadiq Baba, who qualified the CCTV showcase, and Uche, who swore to the fee’s counter-affidavit.
El-Rufai sought after the officers to give an explanation for how the clips had been decided on, copied and licensed, whether or not the opposite recordings existed and why they’d no longer been produced.
He additionally requested the court docket to direct that any pictures offered by way of the fee be performed in open court docket within the presence of each events and their attorneys.
The previous governor argued that the lacking recordings may just assist explain disputed accounts of the incidents.
“The disregarded portion of July 7 at about 14:53 presentations the applicant’s son being dragged, and his leg trapped within the gutter,” he stated.
“The clip at about 14:54:55 presentations the officer falling at a ditch. The ones pictures contradict the account within the Counter Affidavit,” he added.
El-Rufai additional argued that the June 7 recording would display that the ICPC had invited his spouse into its premises at the first evening of his detention.
He maintained that the July 4 pictures was once essential to check the fee’s allegation that Asabe have been “smuggled” into the ability.
The previous governor additionally cited Phase 36(3) of the Charter, which supplies for public court docket court cases, and Phase 167(d) of the Proof Act, 2011, arguing that the court docket may just draw an hostile inference if related proof was once withheld.
The ICPC adversarial his request, insisting that the total recordings contained delicate knowledge that would compromise the safety of its premises if displayed publicly.
The fee argued that if the court docket thought to be it essential to inspect all the pictures, it may well be performed within the pass judgement on’s chambers.
The court docket’s ruling lets in all sides to give decided on parts of the recordings in open court docket, with each and every birthday celebration restricted to twenty mins, forward of the following listening to on November 3.