Following the refusal of Governor Sule Lamido to pay a N50 million compensation to APC senator-elect, Muhammad Sabo Nakudu and another party, a Federal High court sitting in Dutse, Jigawa state capital has directed all the commercial banks operating in the state to freeze accounts bearing the governor’s initials with immediate effect.
It also summoned the banks to appear before it with statements of their accounts.
The order emanated from a court session presided by Justice Sabiu Yahuza who gave the verdict following the plaintiff’s complaint that the governor refused to comply with the court’s judgment for him to pay the compensation for damages.
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, Birninkudu local government and state’s commissioner of police to the court for illegal trespass, attacking my client resident in Birninkudu 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 provided by the law,” he said.
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 the defendant’s bank accounts until after the verdict on the matter.
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