The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has uncovered multi-million dollar villas and apartments in Egypt linked to former Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai.
TheCable reports that the properties were discovered when the commission probed el-Rufai’s tenure as governor.
The assets include three villas and six apartments and are located in highbrow estates and areas in Cairo, the capital of Egypt.
According to the reports, villas in Arabilla Estate and Banafsik Estate, both in New Cairo, are sold for between $1,000,000 and $1,300,000.
Meanwhile, apartments in Cairo Festival City have a price tag of around $500,000 each.
ICPC sources said the probed unearthed the real estate assets in the North African country acquired from 2021 to 2023 by el-Rufai when he was the governor of the state during the reported period of acquisition.
The former governor was yet to refute the latest revelations against him as he insisted that he was innocent, adding that he was being persecuted for his political choices.
But in a 2023 interview in Hausa, el-Rufai denied that, unlike some people, he “didn’t syphon the money to Dubai and buy houses or go to Jabi Road and build a mansion”.
He told Daily Trust that year that “we aren’t like such people. I became the Governor of Kaduna State with only one house located on Danja Street in Unguwan Sarki, Kaduna.
“I have completed my tenure, Alhamdulillah…that is my only house. I don’t have any other house. I didn’t build a mansion. I don’t even need it.”
He said the ICPC defamed him through forgery and threatened to sue the commission.
