#EndSARS promoters: CBN should stop freezing bank accounts of activists Falana
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…It’s not over yet, CSOs warn FG
…As CAN says freezing of the accounts uncalled for, Nigeria can’t nurture democracy by stifling freedom of expression
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri & Luminous Jannamike
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday vacated an order it made on November 4, 2020, which directed banks to freeze accounts that were linked to 20 alleged promoters of the #EndSARS protest that rocked the nation last year.
The court, in a ruling by Justice Ahmed Mohammed, ordered all the commercial banks affected by the order, to “immediately” unfreeze the accounts, even as it struck out the suit that was filed against the alleged #EndSARS promoters by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and its govenor, Mr. Godwin Emiefele.
Nigeria-Press-Review January 29, 2021 to 09:52 2307 APA – Lagos (Nigeria) The Transparency International’s damning verdict on Nigeria’s anti-corruption war, ranking the country 149th on its yearly Corruption Perception Index dominates the headlines of Nigerian newspapers on Friday.
The Guardian reports that Transparency International (TI) has, again, passed a damning verdict on Nigeria’s anti-corruption war, ranking the country 149th on its yearly Corruption Perception Index (CPI) after it picked 25 points, the worst since 2013.
With the rating, Nigeria dropped three points from its last (2019) ranking when it sat 146th on the table. The 2020’s index was co-led by New Zealand and Denmark after they polled 88 points individually. They were followed by Finland, Switzerland and Singapore (a country that emerged from a stinky official corruption history under the late Lee
By Alex Enumah
Justice Bello Kawu of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Kubwa, Abuja on Wednesday halted the trial of Comrade Deji Adeyanju and 49 others accused of promoting the #ENDSARS protest that rocked the entire country last October.
Justice Kawu halted trial of the defendants in a ruling on an exparte application brought by Adeyanju.
Following a Direct Criminal Complaint filed by the Police last November, Magistrate Omolola Akindele of a Chief Magistrate Court in Abuja had ordered the Commissioner of Police in the FCT to investigate the role played by the defendants in the protest that saw the loss of dozens of lives and properties worth billions of naira across states in the federation.