Lagos-based lawyer and Rights activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome has asked a Federal High Court in Lagos to vacate an interim no debit order placed on his account.
This was contained in an application filed on Thursday in which he seek an order to to discharge the interim to freeze the money for 120 days
Justice Abdulazeez Anka, had on Feb. 7, ordered a temporary forfeiture of N75 million found in Ozekhome’s Guarantee Trust Bank account.
He sought an order restraining the EFCC, whether by themselves or their privies, from dealing in any way and manner as to the operation or the proprietary rights of the ownership of the account.
Ozekhome said that the application for an order of interim forfeiture of his account was done in bad faith as the EFCC did not comply with statutory and judicial authorities in obtaining an interim order through a motion ex parte.
According to him, the respondent allegedly suppressed material facts in obtaining the order, as a result of which he held that the action is unconstitutional as same offends Sections 36, 37 and 41 of the 1999 Constitution.
He said that his “family, staff, dependants, associates, business and livelihood will greatly suffer, if this application is not granted, and the freezing order lifted immediately”.
Ozekhome also filed an affidavit of urgency deposed to by a lawyer in his firm, Chimaobi Onuigbo, praying that that the case be heard urgently.
The motion to set aside the freezing order will be heard on Feb. 23
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