Bello El-Rufai, son of former Kaduna state governor Nasir El-Rufai, has accused the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC) of denying his father access to food and medical attention. In a statement, Bello claimed that his father's personal doctor visited the ICPC at about 3pm on Friday, May 15, to discuss the results of recent medical tests, but officials blocked the doctor from seeing him, stating that written permission from the ICPC Chairman was required.
Bello asserted that this refusal flouted a clear court order granting his father unrestricted access to his doctors. He further alleged that when his father's wife, Aunty Aichatou, brought his evening meal at around 7pm, ICPC personnel turned her away, saying they had orders not to permit food deliveries after 6:30pm.
According to Bello, these arbitrary rules are outright assaults on the rule of law and a clear violation of his father's constitutional and human rights. The statement claimed that no lawful detention justifies denying medical access or refusing basic family care based on an arbitrary curfew fixed by the ICPC.
“We demand that all his constitutional rights be fully respected. We will no longer accept this pattern of intimidation dressed up as protocol,” Bello said. The commission had earlier dragged El-Rufai to court on a nine-count charge bordering on alleged advance fee fraud and money laundering.
