DSS Files Charges Against El-Rufai For Tapping Phone Lines Of NSA, Ribadu

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 BREAKING: Federal Government to arraign Elrufai for tapping phone lines of NSA.


IN THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT OF NIGERIA

IN THE ABUJA JUDICIAL DIVISION

HOLDEN AT ABUJA


CHARGE NO: FHC/ABJ/CR/99/2026


BETWEEN

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA - COMPLAINANT

AND

MALLAM NASIR EL RUFAI (65 YEARS)- DEFENDANT


CHARGE


COUNT ONE

That you, Mallam Nasir El Rufai, adult, male, on 13th February, 2026, while appearing as a guest on Arise TV Station's Prime Time Programme in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this court, did admit during the interview that you and your cohorts unlawfully intercepted the Phone Communications of the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 12 (1) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Amendment, Act, 2024.


COUNT TWO

That you, Mallam Nasir El Rufai, adult, male, on 13th February, 2026, while appearing as a guest on Arise TV Station's Prime Time Programme in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this court, did state during the interview that you know and relate with certain individual, who unlawfully intercepted the Phone Communications of the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, without reporting the said individual to relevant Security agencies and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 27 (b) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Amendment, Act, 2024.


COUNT THREE

That you, Mallam Nasir El Rufai, adult, male, and other still at large, sometime in 2026, in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this court, with others still at large did use technical equipment or systems which compromised public safety, national security and instilling reasonable apprehension of insecurity among Nigerians by unlawfully intercepting the Phone Communications of the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, to which you admitted during an interview on 13th February, 2026, on Arise TV Station's Prime Time Programme in Abuja and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 131 (2) Nigerian Communications Act 2003.


Dated this 16th day of February 2026.


ME ERNEST, Esq

O.M OWAN Esq

U.M BULLA Esq.

C.S. EZE PhD

E.G. ORUBOR Esq

Counsel to the Prosecution,

Dept. of State Services,

No. 1 Maitama Avenue,

Aso Drive, Abuja

09046898438


FOR SERVICE ON:

THE DEFENDANT


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