#EndBadGovernance Protests: Nigerian Court Freezes Bank Accounts Of 32 Individuals, Companies
The show also directs banks to arrest and detain memoir holders or any individual stumbled on transacting enterprise on the affected accounts, pending investigation and prosecution,
A Federal Excessive Court docket in Abuja has issued an show freezing the financial institution accounts of 32 folks and companies allegedly linked to the #EndBadGovernance protests that took position all the contrivance by contrivance of Nigeria.
The court’s ruling, delivered by Justice Emeka Nwite, changed into essentially based totally totally on an ex-parte stream filed by the Inspector-Traditional of Police’s counsel, Ibrahim Mohammed.
The show also directs banks to arrest and detain memoir holders or any individual stumbled on transacting enterprise on the affected accounts, pending investigation and prosecution, NAN reports.
Mr Nwite, who granted the stream dated and filed on August 20, directed the banks to contact the Nigeria Police Drive by contrivance of the phone numbers: 08035179870 and 07032449912 as rapidly as arrest is made.
“That the banks are hereby directed by this honourable court to deny famous gains of the memoir equipment(s) and to position a Submit-No-Debit (PND) on the accounts, disable the ATM whereas permitting inflow into the said accounts as from the date of this court show,” the deem declared.
The Files Company of Nigeria reports that though the ruling changed into made on Thursday, the licensed appropriate reproduction of the show changed into sighted on Sunday in Abuja.
The memoir numbers affected consist of 4010073491 (Constancy Bank), 1255130019 (Entry Bank), 0006084167 (Abbey Mortgage Multipurpose Bank Plc), 0821931299 (FCMB), 1012007655 (FCMB), 0000575573 (A AG Mortgage Bank Plc), 1007871587 (UBA), 2037117333 (UBA), 5421031104 (ECOBANK), 0024541201 (Union Bank), 1022899050 (UBA), 8755008491 (Division International Products and providers Ltd), 5630208636 (Constancy), and 4936992542 (Fairmoney Microfinance Bank).
Others are 8755008499 (Division International Monetary Products and providers Ltd), 2088228208 (UBA), 2115678044 (Zenith Bank), 3041823452 (First Bank), 1011828445 (Fresh Edge Finance), 3024402748 (First Bank), 0161502459 (GTBank), 0040580047 (Entry Bank), 0250291788 (Wema Bank), 6112464260 (Division International Monetary Products and providers Ltd), 1000774097 (Sparkle Microfinance Bank Ltd), 3434649965 (Fairmoney Microfinance Bank), 2013556714 (KUDA Microfinance Bank), 3104962864 (Polaris Bank), 6112464267 (Division International Finance Products and providers Lit), 8137051249 (OPAY) and 8137051249 (PALMPAY).
The Inspector Traditional of Police, within the applying marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1219/2024, listed PA.LIN.HO International Carrier Ltd, Innocent Angel Lovet Chinyere Nkiru, Obidient Motion Multipurpose Cooperative Society, Innocent Angel Lovet, Massive Communicators Champion Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd as the first to 5th respondents respectively
Others consist of Massive Communicators Champion Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd, Opaluwa Eleojo Bob-Simon, NUEE Assure Chapter, Adeyemi Abiodun Abayomi, Adaramoye Michael Tobiloba, Popoola Festus as sixth to 11th respondents respectively.
Mr Mohammed, in his four-ground argument, said the accounts as contained within the time table in admire of which reliefs sought are topic of investigation and are moderately suspected to be warehousing proceeds of illegal activities or fraud.
“If there is any facing the memoir by manner of withdrawal or switch to 1 other memoir by the folks under investigation/investigator and the folks which have absolute vitality to take care of the memoir will render worthless any consequential show(s) which the court would possibly perchance perchance even merely develop at the conclusion of this application,” he said.
The Inspector-Traditional of Police’s counsel alleged that the frozen accounts were utilized for illicit activities, including prison conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable prison, cyberbullying, and cyberstalking.
He claimed that funds were unlawfully transferred into these accounts, which will be in actuality linked to accused folks who’re currently at worthy.
“That the accused folks were mad by web hosting one other nation’s flag in show to undermine the sovereignty of Nigerian narrate,” he added.
In the affidavit in strengthen of the stream ex-parte, Gregory Woji, a detective connected to Drive Prison Investigation Division, deposed that preliminary investigation revealed that some suspects arrested were being recruited by some financiers to motive mayhem and destroyed existence and property,
Mr Woji said preliminary investigation extra revealed that the financiers were sending money to recruit the indigents and a form of susceptible folks to carry banners and overthrow a democratically elected executive.
Additional preliminary investigation, according to the counsel, has uncovered that definite foreign nationals performed a key position within the reprehensible acts of treasonable prison and terrorism financing in Nigeria.
He said that the actions of the accused folks are tantamount to prison conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable prison, cyberstalking, and cyberbullying, and are therefore punishable offenses.
Mr. Woji emphasised that it is the police’s responsibility to stop this illegal tell by tantalizing the perpetrators, as an offense in opposition to one is an offense in opposition to all.
He said that intelligence reports indicate that the suspects try to switch or withdraw funds from the accounts, and if this court does no longer grant this show, the investigation will be compromised.
“That it could perchance perhaps be within the hobby of justice to grant this request by freezing the memoir of the said suspects and show their fast arrest on sighting them pending the final consequence of the investigation and doubtless prosecution,” he said.
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