MUHAMMAD JSC (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja division, hereinafter referred to as the lower court, in Appeal No. CA/A/306/2016, affirming the ruling of the Federal High Court sitting at Abuja, hereinafter referred to as the trial court. The ruling of the trial court dated 22 April 2016 which the lower court’s judgment delivered on 25 July 2017 affirmed, arose in the course A of proceedings in suit FHC/ABJ/CS/1054/2015.
The brief facts of the case that brought about the appeal are hereinunder supplied.
Following its ex parte originating summons dated 21 December 2015, the trial court granted the respondent leave to completely freeze the operation of accounts specified in Forms of the Schedule to the EFCC Act 2004, attached to the summons and further empowered the respondent to receive such information in respect of the frozen accounts from the managers of the banks and/or persons in whose control the designated accounts…