A Federal High court sitting in Dutse,
Jigawa state capital has ordered all
commercial banks operating in the
state to freeze accounts bearing the
names of Governor Sule Lamido,
Birnin-Kudu local government and
the Jigawa state government with
immediate effect.
The court also summoned all
commercial banks in the state to
appear before its with statements of
their accounts.
The court’s decision followed the
refusal of the governor and the state
government to obey the court’s order
in a judgment to pay the sum of N50
million as compensation to APC
senator-elect, Muhammad Sabo
Nakudu and one other.
Reports indicated that the court gave
the order during a court proceeding
presided by Justice Sabiu Yahuza who
gave the verdict after the plaintiff
through their counsel Barrister Umar
Aliyu to complain of dependent’s
refusal to comply with the court
judgment to pay the damage
compensation.
Speaking after the court order, the
plaintiff counsel, Barrister Umar
Aliyu expressed satisfaction with the
court decision, “we dragged Jigawa
state governor and the state
government, Birnin-kudu local
government and state’s commissioner
of police to the court for illegal
trespass, attacking my client resident
in Birnin-kudu town and violation of
his right”.
“We convinced the court beyond
reasonable doubt with genuine
evidence, the court made the
judgment in our favor and ordered
the dependents to pay my clients the
sum of N50 million, the dependent
failed to abide by the court verdict
within the period provides by the
law”.
According to him that was why they
went back to court and complained,
hence the court ordered and served
all the Banks in the state with the
order of freezing their dependent’s
banks accounts until after the verdicts
on the matter.
The Attorney general later called and
said “I’m having a meeting with the
Secretary to the State Government
(SSG), I will call you later”, but till
the time of filing in this report he
didn’t call back.
Source: DailyTimes

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