Court orders CBN to unfreeze accounts of Endsars promoters

Months after the accounts of some #EndSars# protesters were frozen, a Federal High Court in Abuja has given a new order telling the Central Bank of Nigeria to unfreeze the account of some protesters.

A justice of the Abuja Federal High Court, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, in a ruling on Wednesday, ordered all affected banks to defreeze the affected accounts immediately.

Justice Mohammed also struck out the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1384/2020 filed by the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and in respect of which the ex-parte order freezing the accounts for 180 days was made on November 4, 2020.š

The court’s decision was informed by the withdrawal of all processes filed in relation to the suit by lawyers to all parties.

Former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Michael Aondoakaa (SAN), who appeared for the CBN Governor and Femi Falana (SAN), who appeared for those affected by the freezing order, told the court, at the beginning of the proceedings, that they have resolved to withdraw all the processes filed for peace to reign and for the ongoing process of reconciliation, at the various panels of enquiry on police brutality across the country, to progress unhindered.