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#EndSARS promoters drag CBN to court as they demand the unfreezing of their accounts - Edoman - 11-13-2020 #EndSARS promoters drag CBN to court as they demand the unfreezing of their accounts Fourteen out of the twenty alleged #EndSARS promoters whose bank accounts have been frozen by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, have filed a countersuit before the Federal High court in Abuja, for their accounts to be unfrozen. Recall that on November 5, the CBN secured an order from Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High court in Abuja to freeze the accounts of 19 of the alleged #EndSARS promoters and a public affairs company. The apex court alleged that the accounts of the promoters were linked with terrorist activities. The court granted the request of the CBN and their accounts were frozen for 90 days. Read here and here. Those affected by the ban include Bolatito Oduala, Chima Ibebunjoh, Mary Kpengwa, Gatefield Nigeria Limited, Saadat Bibi, Bassey Israel, Wisdom Obi, Nicholas Osazele, Ebere Idibie, Akintomide Yusuf, Uhuo Promise, Mosopefoluwa Odeseye and Adegoke Emmanuel. Others include Umoh Ekanem, Babatunde Segun, Mulu Teghenan, Mary Oshifowora, Winifred Jacob, Victor Solomon, and Idunu Williams. In a 27-page motion filed through their team of lawyers led by human rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, the #EndSARS promoters told the court that they never granted fair hearing by the court before their accounts were frozen. They accused the CBN of not only lying to the court when it painted them as suspected terrorists but also engaging in gross abuse of the judicial process. They contended that the freezing order the court issued against them on November 4, was “anchored on misrepresentation of material facts and based on suppression of material facts” by the CBN. Listing 13 grounds the court should consider and unfreeze their accounts, the Applicants, argued that Quote:“the ex-parte order made on the 4th day of November, 2020, by this Honorable Court was made to validate an illegal act. The alleged #EndSARS promoters told the court that the apex bank had even instructed their individual banks to freeze their accounts before approaching the court to obtain an order to freeze their accounts. Quote:“That on October 15, 2020, the accounts of the Defendants/Applicants were frozen by their respective banks on the orders of the Plaintiff/Respondent without notice and lawful justification. They argued that unless the order to freeze their account is vacated, they would suffer economic hardship. Quote:“Unless the order by this Honourable Court made on the 14th of October, 2019 freezing all transaction in the Respondent/Applicant accounts is set aside or discharged in its entirety, the respondent/Applicant’s business in Nigeria will be completely ruined”they averred The #EndSARS promoters also stated that they were never given the opportunity to defend the terrorism allegation the CBN made against them before the ex-parte order was made. They argued that this is contrary to the provision of Section 36 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation, 2004. |