Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho has clarified the frozen of accounts which made headlines in the Nigerian media.
According to him, all these reports are not true and that no court froze accounts of the supposed promoters of the recent #EndSARS protests.
He made this known when addressing a special court session the High Court held to mark the commencement of its 2020/2021 legal year.
In his submission, he said;
“Following the #Endsars protests, this Honourable court was involved in the press, in a rather uncomplimentary manner on account of freezing of bank accounts of individuals and organisations believed to have bankrolled the process.
Three months before the protest, the CBN kept bringing applications almost in their hundreds based on what they call deliberate resolve to ruin the economy through money laundering.
So if it was the #Endsars people that were involved in the activities under cover, then it is unfortunate for people to begin to call and vilify the court, making damaging allegations against the court.
If steps were not taken at that time, the Nigerian economy would have collapsed, that is to say about three months ago, the dollar would have exchanged far above N500.”
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