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  • Court restrains police from investigating paternity dispute against ex-minister

    Court restrains police from investigating paternity dispute against ex-minister

    An Upper Area Court sitting in Kado, Abuja has restrained the police from investigating a paternity dispute against former Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Kabiru Turaki, pending the hearing and determination of the case.

    The presiding judge, Shehu Ahmadu, in a ruling, ordered the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police and his officers not to accept any complaint from Musa Baffa, Uwani Arabi and their daughter, Hadiza Baffa, in relation to the ex-minister as the matter is already before the court.

    The judge gave the order following an ex-parte motion moved by Turaki’s counsel on  Sept. 2 and a certified true copy of the order made available to newsmen on Friday in Abuja.

    The judge said: “respondents are hereby restrained, especially 4th to 10th respondents from accepting any complaint from the 1st to 3rd respondents (parents and daughter) especially the 2nd respondent (Hadiza) or carrying any investigation relating to the applicant as the matter is already before a competent court of law, the Upper Area Court Kado FCT, in CV/35/2024 until the determination of the motion on notice before this court.

    “This order Is given under the hand and seal of the honourable judge.”

    Turaki had, in the motion number: M/26/2024, sued Musa Baffa (father), Hadiza Baffa (daughter), Uwani Arabi (mother) and Nigeria Police Force as 1st to 4th respondents respectively.

    Others listed in the application include the I-G, DIG Sylvester Alabi (DIG Force CID), AIG Muhammad Dan Kwara (Force CID), CP Musbahu Ajani (CP Admin, Force CID), CSP Mohammed Gashua and SP Ibrahim Shugaba as 5th to 10th respondents.

    In the substantive suit marked: CV/35/2024 filed before the court, Turaki sued Musa, Hadiza and Uwani as 1st to 3rd defendants.

    The ex-minister denied being responsible for Hadiza’s pregnancy which resulted in a baby girl.

    He alleged that Hadiza had a boyfriend who he said was responsible for the pregnancy.

    The ex-minister alleged that sometimes in 2016, Uwani, who was a person known to him In Kano before her marriage to Musa, called him on phone and sought his advice on her plans to relocate her daughter, Hadiza, “who was then schooling, according to her, at University of Maiduguri, because of the activities of Boko Haram.”

    He said he advised Uwani to secure and.ission for her daughter at Bayero University, Kano; Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, or University of Ilorin.

    Turaki said after some weeks of the previous discussion, Uwani called and told him that she was coming to Abuja together with Hadiza and begged him to arrange an accommodation for them.

    He said he obliged by securing an accommodation at Ideal Guest House, Garki which Is a furnished apartment that are let out for short or long stay.

    He said Uwani secured admission for Hadiza at Baze University in Abuja and he supported her with N1 million out of the N3 million for registration fees.

    He alleged that Uwani pleaded with him to serve as Guardian for her daughter, Hadiza.

    The ex-minister, who averred that he took responsibility of Hadiza’s upkeep, said he was surprised to discover that Hadiza connived with her mother to change her surname to Turaki without his knowledge and consent.

    He alleged that when Hadiza’s criminal acts became so intense, he drive her away and directed his staff not to allow her close to her office anymore.

    He alleged that after walking out on the daughter and the mother for a month or there about, Uwani called him on phone and requested to see him.

    He said during the meeting, Uwani told him  that her daughter was pregnant and she said he was responsible.

    Turaki averred that he outrightly denied the allegation describing it as a blackmail.

    He alleged that Musa, Hadiza’s father, who he said had abandoned the daughter for 28 years, called him around May regarding the issue.

    But in a statement of defence jointly filed by the parents and daughter, they denied Turaki’s allegations.

    Hadiza and Uwani averred that it was the ex-minister who reached out 3rd defendant (Uwani) and offered to help her daughter “by enrolling her into Baze University in Abuja, bear the cost of her education and accommodation; and serve as her guardian.”

    According to them, the plaintiff (Turaki) committed to doing everything for the 2nd defendant because according to him, he considers her as his daughter.

    They alleged that it was Turaki who suggested the university contrary to his claim.

    They said Hadiza’s registration fees when she gained admission in 2014 was N950, 000 and that the ex-minister gave her $2000 dollars for the fees.

    Uwani said contrary to Turaki’s claim, the former minister offered to serve as Hadiza’s guardian.

    Uwani, who said she never requested or prompted for such decision, said as at that time she did not suspect that Turaki had sinister motives towards her daughter.

    Hadiza averred that she never suspected that Turaki’s benevolence towards her was to take her advantage

    Uwani said contrary to Turaki’s claim that she begged him to give her daughter a car, the woman said she never had any of such discussion with the former minister.

    According to her, it was the plaintiff who called her to pick up the Toyota Almera from his office at T.Y. Danjuma Street, Asokoro and she was surprise to see that the car particulars carried her name as “Hadiza Turaki.”

    On her part, Hadiza alleged that it was Turaki who had changed her name to “Hadiza Turaki” by putting same on the vehicle papers he bought for her and persuaded her to use the same name on her Guarantee Trust Bank account number through which he sent monies to her severally through his account officer.

    Hadiza alleged that she had challenges with her education, faced physical and emotional trauma when the ex-minister “exploited her under the guise of being her guardian.

    She alleged that he frequently visited her in the apartments and several times lured her into having illicit sexual relationship with him.

    She further averred that the plaintiff severally threatened her not to let her parents know that he was taking advantage of her thus, she was scared and traumatised, and the trauma affected her and her studies.

    According to her, when the plaintiff realised that she was passing through psychological and physical trauma, he kept promising to marry her and began to build romantic phone and WhatsApp conversations with her.

    Hadiza alleged that when she discovered that she was pregnant for Turaki, she informed him and he took several steps, including phone calls made to her trying to compel and pushing her to abort the pregnancy.

    She said she decided to keep the pregnancy against all odds when she was advised against terminating it and the risk involved.

    She alleged that Turaki became wild against her when she refused to listen to him.

    Hadiza said she delivered the baby girl on April 3, 2023

    “And when the plaintiff later saw the baby, he acknowledged that she was his daughter as a result of the striking resemblance with him,” she alleged.

    She further alleged that the ex-minister even paid monies for the antenatal, delivery and post natal services of the baby girl at Nizamiyye Hospital.

    The matter was adjourned until Sept. 24 for continuation of hearing

  • Inspector General of Police sentenced to six months imprisonment

    Inspector General of Police sentenced to six months imprisonment

    The Acting Inspector-General of Police in Kenya, Gilbert Masengeli has been sentenced to six months in prison for contempt by the country’s High Court.

    In his ruling on Friday, Justice Lawrence Mugambi gave Masengeli seven days to surrender himself to the Commissioner-General of Prisons to commence his prison term.

    Justice Masengeli ordered the Interior Cabinet Secretary, Kithure Kindiki to ensure Masengeli’s imprisonment if the Acting IGP fails to surrender himself.

    The judge said, “Mr Gilbert Masengeli is sentenced to six months imprisonment, he is ordered to submit himself to the Commissioner of Kenya Prisons to ensure he is committed to a prison facility to commence serving sentence.”

    The judge gave the ruling following the Acting IGP’s refusal to honour six consecutive summons to appear before the court.

    Justice Masengeli had summoned the police boss over the whereabouts of two brothers, Jamil and Aslam Longton and activist, Bob Njagi.

    They were kidnapped in August in Kitengela.

     

  • Edo poll: Court summons Okpebholo over alleged age falsification

    Edo poll: Court summons Okpebholo over alleged age falsification

    A Magistrates’ Court in Abuja has summoned Sen. Monday Okpebholo, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate for the 2024 Edo elections, to appear before it over alleged age falsification.

    He is charged with forgery and perjury.

    The suit , filed by a PDP Chieftain,  Honesty Aginbatse, on Sept 12 alleged discrepancies in the birth dates provided in the nomination forms Okpebholo submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

    Sen. Okpebholo is to appear before magistrate , Abubakar Mukhtar on Sept 20.

    Magistrate Mukthar adjourned the case until Sept. 20.

    Aginbatse alleged that Okpebholo’s 2023 Senate nomination form listed his birth date as March 29, 1970.

    He added that however, Okpebholo‘s 2024 governorship nomination forms contained Aug. 29, 1970  an an age declaration form and Aug.  29, 1972 on his West African Examination Council (WAEC) certificate.

    Aginbatse also alleged that Okpebholo, had Aug. 1, 1977 as his date of birth on his INEC voter card.

    He stated that Under Section 182.1 (d) of the Nigerian Constitution, a conviction for offenses involving dishonesty or fraud disqualifies a person from running for governor, raising questions about Okpebholo’s eligibility if convicted.

  • Edo poll: Appeal Court dismisses suit seeking Ighodalo’s disqualification

    Edo poll: Appeal Court dismisses suit seeking Ighodalo’s disqualification

    The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday dismissed an appeal seeking to disqualify Asue Ighodalo as governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo.

    A three-member panel of the appellate court, led by Justice Hamma Barka, dismissed the appeal marked CA/ABJ/CV/863/2024.

    The appeal was filed by governorship aspirants Arthur Esene and Anselm Ojezua.

    Esene and Ojezua had, in the appeal prayed the Court of Appeal to set aside the April 17 judgment by Justice James  Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja which dismissed their suit for being statute barred.

    Justice Barka  held that the suit filed before the Federal High Court by Ojezua and four others was filed out of time and statute barred.

    He agreed with the judgment of the Federal High Court that, not  Ojezua and others fail to establish their claims that Ighodalo forged his voter’s card.

    In addition, the judge held that their suit was bereft of any merit because it was based on a flawed assumption that not possession of a voter’s card constitutes a ground to disqualify a candidate from contesting election.

    He found that the appellants failed to appeal the findings of the trial court that Ighodalo actually applied to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the transfer of his registration from Lagos State to Edo and that INEC issued a voter’s card to Ighodalo.

    Justice Barka therefore strike out the appeal for being without merit and pto awarded cost of N3 million against the appellants and in favour of Ighodalo, PDP and INEC.

  • LG poll: Court reserves judgment in Rivers APC suit against INEC

    LG poll: Court reserves judgment in Rivers APC suit against INEC

    A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, reserved judgment in the suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the conduct of the local government election in Rivers.

    Justice Peter Lifu said that a date for the judgment would be communicated to parties after lawyers in the suit adopted their processes and argued their case for and against the suit.

    NAN reports that APC in the suit  prayed the court to pronounce that INEC can only release the register to the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) “in strict conformity and compliance with the mandatory provisions of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and the Electoral Act, 2022.”

    The party argued that the electoral umpire, in line with the provision, can stop continuous voter registration at least 90 days before the poll date.

    It argued that the condition precedent for the conduct of local government election in Rivers had not been met by RSIEC.

    Upon resumed hearing, the court listened to all pending preliminary applications, including those seeking joinder brought by the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and Boot Party as well as the substantive suit.

    Goddy Uche, SAN, also presented his motion for change of counsel and discontinuance of the suit on behalf of the Rivers chapter of the APC.

    The motion was filed by Uche and signed by chairman of the party in the state, Chief Emeka Beke, and Sam Etetegwung, APC Secretary in Rivers, respectively.

    However, Joseph Daudu, SAN,.who appeared for the plaintiff (APC national body), prayed the court to grant their reliefs.

    In their arguments, Taiwo Taiwo, SAN, counsel to for the Attorney General of Rivers, and Femi Falana, SAN, who appeared for INEC, challenged the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the case.

    They equally challenged the competence of the suit on the ground that it was statute-barred.

    The respondents further contended that the proper court with jurisdiction to entertain the case is the Rivers division of the Federal High Court.

    They also argued that being a vacation court, the court lacked the jurisdiction to hear the case without obtaining the consent of both parties.

    Justice Lifu consequently reserved judgment in the matter after listening to the parties.

  • JUST IN: 10 #EndBadGovernance Protesters remanded In Kuje, Suleja Prisons

    JUST IN: 10 #EndBadGovernance Protesters remanded In Kuje, Suleja Prisons

    Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja has remanded 10 #EndBadGovernance protesters in prison.

    The judge, on Monday, remanded nine male protesters in the Kuje prison while a female protester was remanded in Suleja.

    The court also fixed September 11 for trial and ruling on bail application by the protesters.

    This followed the arraignment of the protesters for alleged treason, mutiny and intent to destabilise Nigeria.

    The 10 persons who were arraigned before Justice Emeka Nwite are Michael Adaramoye also known as Lenin, Adeyemi Abayomi, Suleiman Yakubu, Opaoluwa Simon, and Angel Innocent.

    Others are Buhari Lawal, Mosiu Sadiq, Bashir Bello, Nuradeen Khamis, and Abdulsalam Zubairu.

    The defendants, who all pleaded not guilty, were arraigned on six counts of alleged treason, intent to destabilise Nigeria, conspiracy to commit felony and inciting to mutiny which is an offence punishable under Section 97 of the Penal Code.

    The defendants are equally accused of levying war against the state to intimidate President Bola Tinubu by attacking and injuring police officers and burning police stations, government buildings and private buildings.

  • Trial of #EndBadGovernance protesters begin in Abuja, Kano, Kaduna, Borno today

    Trial of #EndBadGovernance protesters begin in Abuja, Kano, Kaduna, Borno today

    Deputy inspector-General of Police, Intelligence, Dasuki Galadanchi, has revealed that the rial of #EndBadGovernance protesters will begin in Abuja, Kano, Kaduna and Borno today.

    The DIG disclosed this at the just-ended Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).

    He said those to be charged to court today were 126 suspects who were arrested for waving the Russian flag and demanding regime change during the protest, which snowballed into violence that resulted in deaths and looting of private and public assets in some states.

    A human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, will lead other lawyers to defend the protesters before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja.

    The protesters had been arrested following the August 1-10 nationwide protest against the hardship in the country, which was believed to have been caused by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s twin policies of petrol subsidy removal and currency floatation.

    This is just as a group of detained #EndBadGovernance protesters yesterday urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to lift its order permitting the police to remand them for two months earlier this month.

    Justice Nwite had, on August 22, granted applications filed by the police to remand 124 arrested #EndBadGovernance protesters for 60 days pending the conclusion of investigation.

    Similarly, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) had, on Thursday, called for the immediate and unconditional release of the detained protesters.

    In an interview with Daily Trust, Isa Sanusi, Director, Amnesty International Nigeria, said the organisation was deeply concerned that the protesters to be arraigned today would only be subjected to another round of government’s unrelenting intent to punish protesters and demonise protests.

    “We condemn the sham trials even before they began and call for an end to these endless bizarre attempts to deprive people of the right to peaceful protest. What is going to happen to these protesters, who took to the streets last month seeking good governance, is a disguised exercise solely aimed at punishing dissenters,” Sanusi said.

    He said that the Nigerian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release all those arrested for exercising their right to peaceful assembly, instead of resorting to putting them through trumped-up charges just to justify unlawfully detaining them.

    “The Nigerian government has been wrongfully placing priority on punishing detained protesters, without saying even a word on the urgent need to investigate the killing of dozens of protesters across Kano, Katsina, Suleja/Tafa, Jigawa and Maiduguri.”

    In two ex-parte applications, the Inspector-General of Police sought an interim order to remand the suspects until the conclusion of the investigation, which was granted by Justice Emeka Nwite.

     

  • Court strikes out suit against #EndBadGovernance protesters

    Court strikes out suit against #EndBadGovernance protesters

    A Federal High Court Sitting in Abuja has dismissed a case instituted against the #EndBadGovernance protesters.

    This dismissal was pronounced by the court in a ruling delivered on Thursday.

    Other defendants in the case are the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the Inspector General of Police (IGP), the Department Of State Services (DSS), and the Chiefs of Army and Defence Staff.

    The suit filed by 17 Nigerians against the last nationwide protests was dismissed by the court for want of diligent prosecution.

    Justice Peter Lifu terminated the suit on Thursday following the absence of the 17 plaintiffs and 26 defendants in court and without legal representation from the two parties.

    Although the suit was fixed for hearing, the judge expressed shock that none of the 17 plaintiffs showed up nor were they represented by any legal practitioner.

    The plaintiffs drawn from the six geo-political zones of the country had approached the court seeking an order of the court to terminate the protests because their fundamental rights to freedom of movement, human dignity, right to own property, economic, social and cultural development and right to national peace and security were being breached.

    They asked the court to compel the DSS boss, IGP, army chiefs as well and the AGF to enforce their fundamental rights for them by bringing the protesters to order.

     

  • BREAKING: Appeal Court upholds Asue Ighodalo’s candidacy

    BREAKING: Appeal Court upholds Asue Ighodalo’s candidacy

    The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has overturned the judgement of a Federal High Court which ordered the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to allow the participation of 381 ad-hoc delegates in its February 22 primary election in Edo State.

    The primary election produced Asue Ighodalo as the candidate of the party in the September 21, 2024 governorship election in the state.

    A three-man panel of the appellate court set aside the judgement of Justice Inyang Ekwo delivered on the 4th of July, 2024, on the grounds that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the suit of the aggrieved delegates in the first place, having lacked the necessary legal rights to initiate the suit.

    In a unanimous decision, the court held that it cannot interfere with how the PDP select it’s candidate for the September 21 governorship election in Edo State.

     Justice Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja had in July voided the PDP governorship election in Edo State on the ground that 378 delegates who were supposed to vote at the primary election were unlawfully excluded by the party.

    The suit was instituted by one Kelvin Mohammed in a representative capacity.

    Justice Ekwo held that both the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 and the PDP guidelines were violated in the conduct of the primary election at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City, the Edo State capital.

    Justice Ekwo, who said that Exhibit PDP 1 tendered by the party was bereft of evidence, held that the plaintiffs, through the exhibits tendered, were able to establish their case against the defendants.

    The judge said that from the exhibit presented by the PDP, he found that the returning officers who prepared the result sheets only sat down in a place to manufacture the outcome of the poll.

    He said the exclusion of the 381 delegates, including the plaintiffs, was against the provisions of the law.

    Justice Ekwo held that, though the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the 1st defendant, filed a memorandum of appearance in the suit, it was unfortunate that the Commission did not file any process in the case.

    According to the judge, the 1st defendant’s counsel only said it would be bound by the decision of the court.

    “I found that the case of the plaintiffs succeeds on merit,” he had said.

    The three aggrieved ad-hoc delegates, on behalf of the 378 others, had sued INEC, the PDP, its national secretary, and the vice chairman, South-South as 1st to 4th defendants respectively.

    In the suit, the plaintiffs sought two orders.

    These include an order for the defendants or their agents not to act but to show cause why the reliefs of the plaintiffs in their originating summons should not be granted concerning the plan of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th defendants to exclude them and 378 other delegates, whose names and election results are contained in “Exhibits BID 8A to 8L,” from participating in the primaries of Feb. 22 in Edo.

    The plaintiffs, which include Kelvin Mohammed, Gabriel Okoduwa, and Ederaho Osagie, on behalf of others in 12 local government areas and 127 wards, averred that it would be in the interest of justice for their reliefs to be granted.

     

     

     

  • Court freezes 32 bank accounts linked to #EndBadGovernance Protest

    Court freezes 32 bank accounts linked to #EndBadGovernance Protest

    A Federal High Court in Abuja has frozen the bank accounts of 32 individuals and companies’ linked to the 10-day #EndBadGovernance Protest organised across the country pending investigation and prosecution of the case.

    Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on the ex-parte motion moved by counsel for the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police, Ibrahim Mohammed, also ordered the banks to apprehend the account holders or any person transacting business on the said accounts.

    Justice Nwite, who granted the motion dated and filed on Aug. 20, directed the banks to contact the Nigeria Police Force through the telephone numbers: 08035179870 and 07032449912 as soon  as arrest is made.

    “That the banks are hereby directed by this honourable court to issue details of the account package(s) and to place a Post-No-Debit (PND) on the accounts, disable the ATM while allowing inflow into the said accounts as from the date of this court order,” the judge declared.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that though the ruling was made on Thursday, the certified true copy of the order was sighted on Sunday in Abuja.

    The account numbers affected include 4010073491 (Fidelity Bank), 1255130019 (Access Bank), 0006084167 (Abbey Mortgage Multipurpose Bank Plc), 0821931299 (FCMB), 1012007655 (FCMB), 0000575573 (A AG Mortgage Bank Plc), 1007871587 (UBA), 2037117333 (UBA),  5421031104 (ECOBANK ) and 0024541201 (Union Bank).

    Others are 1022899050 (UBA),  8755008491 (Branch International Services Ltd), 5630208636 (Fidelity), 4936992542 (Fairmoney Microfinance Bank).

    Others are 8755008499 (Branch International Financial Services Ltd), 2088228208 (UBA), 2115678044 (Zenith Bank), 3041823452 (First Bank), 1011828445 (New Edge Finance), 3024402748 (Fusrt Bank), 0161502459 (GTBank) and 0040580047 (Access Bank),

    They also include 0250291788 (Wema Bank), 6112464260 (Branch International Financial Services Ltd), 1000774097 (Sparkle Microfinance Bank Ltd), 3434649965 (Fairmoney Microfinance Bank), 2013556714 (KUDA Microfinance Bank), 3104962864 (Polaris Bank), 6112464267 (Branch International Finance Services Lit), 8137051249 (OPAY) and 8137051249 (PALMPAY).

    The I-G, in the application marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1219/2024, had listed PA.LIN.HO Global Service Ltd, Innocent Angel Lovet Chinyere Nkiru, Obidient Movement Multipurpose Cooperative Society, Innocent Angel Lovet, Great Communicators Champion Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd as 1st to 5th respondents respectively

    Others include Great Communicators Champion Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd, Opaluwa Eleojo Bob-Simon, NUEE State Chapter,  Adeyemi Abiodun Abayomi, Adaramoye Michael Tobiloba, Popoola Festus as 6th to 11th respondents respectively.

    Mohammed, in his four-ground argument, said the accounts as contained in the schedule in respect of which reliefs sought are subject of investigation and are reasonably suspected to be warehousing proceeds of unlawful activities or fraud.

    “If there is 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 will render nugatory any consequential order(s) which the court may make at the conclusion of this application,” he said.

    According to him, the accounts are used to promote the offence of criminal conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable felony, cyberbullying and cyberstalking which was illegally transferred to the account of the accused persons now at large.

    “That the accused persons were involved in hosting another country’s flag in order to undermine the sovereignty of Nigerian state,” he added.

    In the affidavit in support of the motion ex-parte, Gregory Woji, a detective attached to Force Criminal Investigation Department, deposed that preliminary investigation revealed that some suspects arrested were being recruited by some financiers to cause mayhem and destroyed life and property,

    Woji said preliminary investigation further revealed that the financiers were sending money to recruit the indigents and other vulnerable individuals to carry banners and overthrow a democratically elected government.

    According to him, preliminary investigation further reveals that some foreign nationals were the harrow head in the unscrupulous act of treasonable felony and promoting terrorism financing in Nigeria.

    He said the act of the accused persons is akin to the offence of criminal conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable felony, cyberstalking and cyberbullying.

    He said it is the function of the police to stop this act by apprehending the offenders as offence to one is an offence to all.

    According to Woji, intelligent report gathered so far reveals that the suspects are making effort to transfer or withdraw money from the accounts and unless this honourable court grants this order, otherwise, the investigation will be jeopardise.

    “That it will be in the interest of justice to grant this request by freezing the account of the said suspects and order their immediate arrest on sighting them pending the outcome of the investigation and possible prosecution,” he averred.