A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday issued an order to freeze 13 bank accounts linked to a suspected terrorist, Henry Okocha.
Justice Peter Lifu issued the order following an ex-parte application filed before the court by the Department of State Services, represented by its counsel, Yunus Umar.
The ex-parte application, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1036/2024, was brought under sections 5 and 81 of the Terrorism Prevention and Prohibition Act 2022.
In an 8-paragraph affidavit supporting the ex-parte motion, the DSS informed the court that the defendant had received substantial sums of money, amounting to millions of naira, in the accounts, and these funds were suspected to be proceeds of terrorism.
Umar requested the court to grant an order for the agency to freeze Okocha’s accounts for 90 days to allow for a thorough forensic investigation into his alleged acts of…