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Court Freezes Accounts of 32 Individuals Linked to #EndBadGovernance Protest
The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted an ex-parte motion to freeze the bank accounts of 32 individuals and companies linked to the 10-day #EndBadGovernance Protest that rocked the country.
Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on August 20, ordered the banks to freeze the accounts pending investigation and prosecution of the case. The accounts affected include 32 individuals and companies, with a total of 25 bank accounts belonging to 14 different banks.
The judge directed the banks to issue details of the account packages and place a Post-No-Debit (PND) on the accounts, disable the ATM while allowing inflow into the said accounts as from the date of the court order.
The accounts linked to the protest are believed to have been used to promote the offence of criminal conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable felony, cyberbullying, and cyberstalking. The police have alleged that some foreign nationals were involved in the unscrupulous act of treasonable felony and promoting terrorism financing in Nigeria.
The police alleged that the suspects arrested were being recruited by some financiers to cause mayhem and destroy life and property, and that the financiers were sending money to recruit indigents and other vulnerable individuals to carry banners and overthrow a democratically elected government.
The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Mohammed, had listed 11 respondents in the application, including PA.LIN.HO Global Service Ltd, Innocent Angel Lovet Chinyere Nkiru, and Obidient Movement Multipurpose Cooperative Society.
Mr. Mohammed, in his four-ground argument, said the accounts were subject to investigation and were reasonably suspected to be warehousing proceeds of unlawful activities or fraud. He urged the court to freeze the accounts to prevent any dealing with the account by way of withdrawal or transfer to another account by the persons under investigation/investigator and the persons that have absolute power to deal with the account.
The detective attached to the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Gregory Woji, deposed that preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects were involved in hosting another country’s flag in order to undermine the sovereignty of Nigerian state.
The police are asking the court to grant the order to freeze the accounts and order the immediate arrest of the suspects on sighting them pending the outcome of the investigation and possible prosecution.
The ruling was made on Thursday, but a certified true copy of the order was sighted on Sunday in Abuja.
