El-Rufai And Question Of Bail

Nasir El-Rufai now stands charged on 10  counts before a court that will decide whether the former Kaduna State governor answers for one of the more detailed corruption case files to reach trial in recent years. These remain allegations, not proven facts, and El-Rufai is entitled to the presumption of innocence until the court says otherwise.
But the scale and specificity of what the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has put before the court, and the way his most recent bail application unfolded, tell Nigerians something worth examining closely about how the country’s most powerful defendants move through its justice system.
The charge sheet, f...