The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has frozen the bank accounts of 32 individuals and companies linked to the 10-day #EndBadGovernance protest organised nationwide, pending the investigation and prosecution of the case.
Financiers were sending money to recruit the indigents and other vulnerable individuals to carry banners and overthrow a democratically elected government.
According to him, the preliminary investigation further reveals that some foreign nationals were the arrowheads in the unscrupulous act of treasonable felony and promoting terrorism financing in Nigeria.
He said the act of the accused persons is akin to the offence of criminal conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable felony, cyberstalking and cyberbullying.
He said it is the function of the police to stop this act by apprehending the offenders as an offence to one is an offence to all.
“The intelligence report gathered so far reveals that the suspects are making an effort to transfer or withdraw money from the accounts, and unless this honourable court grants this order, otherwise, the investigation will be jeopardised.
“That it will be in the interest of justice to grant this request by freezing the account of the said suspects and order their immediate arrest on sighting them pending the outcome of the investigation and possible prosecution,” Mr Woji averred.