A court has frozen 32 bank accounts linked to recent protests and issued arrest orders for those involved. Full details and list of affected accounts have been released.
Recently, a ten-day #EndBadGovernance protest took place across the country. As per reports, a Federal High Court in Abuja has directed to freeze as many as 32 bank accounts linked with various individuals and entities involved in these protests.
The purpose of the move is to facilitate a comprehensive inquiry and potential legal proceedings connected to the matter.
Justice Emeka Nwite recently granted an ex-parte motion from the legal representative of Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Mohammed. In a ruling on this matter, he ordered banks in possession of these accounts to apprehend holders or anyone attempting transactions linked with specified accounts.
On August 20, Justice Nwite ordered the banks to immediately notify the Nigeria Police Force once an arrest has been made following a motion he granted.
The judge declared that the banks must provide information on the account package(s) and impose a Post-No-Debit (PND) status on them. Additionally, they are to deactivate ATM access while permitting money inflow into said accounts starting from this court order’s date.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), while the verdict was issued on Thursday, a verified authentic copy of the decree was observed in Abuja on Sunday.
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The following account numbers have been impacted: 4010073491 from Fidelity Bank, 1255130019 from Access Bank, 0006084167 belonging to Abbey Mortgage Multipurpose Bank Plc., as well as those with the respective numbers of 0821931299 and1012007655 under FCMB; also included are accounts numbered 0000575573 for A AG Mortgage Bank Plc,1007871587and2037117333 connected to UBA,in additionto5421031104 within ECOBANK alongside0024541201 at UnionBank.
The following are the account numbers for others: 1022899050 (UBA), 8755008491 (Branch International Services Ltd), 5630208636 (Fidelity), 4936992542 (Fairmoney Microfinance Bank ), alongside with, but not limited to – accounts like;8755008499 ( Branch International Financial Services Limited,2088228208( UBA) ,2115678044(Zenith Bank ) as well as bankaccounts which display sequence suchas ;3041823452 and1011828445 from FirstBankand New Edge Finance respectively. The rest includetwo of GTbank’s subordinates numbered0161502459 besides Access Bank bearingcode0040580047 .
Included in the list are 0250291788 (Wema Bank), 6112464260 (Branch International Financial Services Ltd), 1000774097 (Sparkle Microfinance Bank Ltd), 3434649965 (Fairmoney Microfinance Bank),2013556714(KUDA MicrofinanceBank) ,3104962864(PolarisBank ),6112464267(BranchInternationalFinanceServicesLit )and8137051249(OPAY and PALMPAY).
In the application FHC/ABJ/CS/1219/2024, PA.LIN.HO Global Service Ltd, Chinyere Nkiru, Obidient Movement Multipurpose Cooperative Society, Innocent Angel Lovet and Great Communicators Champion Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd were listed as 1st to 5th respondents by IGP.
The list of other respondents comprises Champion Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd, known as Great Communicators, Opaluwa Eleojo Bob-Simon, NUEE State Chapter, Adeyemi Abiodun Abayomi and Adaramoye Michael Tobiloba. The 6th to 11th respondents are Popoola Festus.
