Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai’s ex-Chief of Staff, Muhammad Bashir Saidu, was on Tuesday, charged to the Federal High Court in Kaduna by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
Saidu, a one-time Commissioner for Finance in Kaduna State during El-Rufai’s administration, was charged alongside one Ibrahim Muktar, a public officer in the Ministry of Finance.
The defendants were slammed with two-count charges of money laundering, according to charge No FHC/KD/IC/2025.
This is contrary to earlier claim that Saidu had been exonerated of all charges after 10 months of investigation.
The charge was signed by the Assistant Chief Legal Officer of ICPC, Dr Osuobeni Ekoi Akponimisingha.
The court documented stated that Saidu who was at that time the Commissioner for Finance, “did accept cash payment of the sum of N155,000,000.00 from one Ibrahim Muktar exceeding the amount authorised by law, which sum you received in cash through proxy to wit: Muazu Abdu, your Special Assistant and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section2(a) and punishable under the Section 19(d) of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022.”
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