The Court of Appeal supports the seizure of activity again …

The Court of Appeal, a division of Lagos, Wednesday 6 August 2025, has restored the conservation order on 14 properties and N400m linked to the former governor of the State of Kogi, Mr. Yahaya Bello.

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An order of conservation is a directive issued by the court that protects the subject of a case, ensuring that it remains intact and not influenced by external factors while the case is happy.

The order is generally granted when there is a risk that a party may dispose of or tamper with the property in question, thus undermining the dispute process.

Consequently, with the restoration of the conservation order, the Court of appeal has actually supported the previous decision of the lower Court to protect the property and maintain the status quo waiting to resolve the case.

This move guarantees that the integrity of the litigation process is preserved and that no part can unilaterally alter the situation to its advantage.

Judge Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos had, on February 22, 2023, in a cause presented by the Zonal Directorate of Lagos of the Commission for Economic and Financial Crimes, ordered the conservation of the properties, including the community of an apartment hotel 401, Piano 4, Dubai Emirates United Arab “, as well as the fundamentally suspected fund of being derived from activity. illegal.

The order was placed pursuant to sections 9 and 10 of the law on the proceeds of the crime (recovery and management), 2022.

The EFCC is pursuing beautiful on charges of 19 counts, to the limit of the criminal violation of trust and money laundering for the sum of N80.2 billion.

The accusations are in violation of section 18 (a) and punishable pursuant to section 15 (3) of the law on money laundering (Prohibition), 2011 (as modified).

The EFCC declared for the first time that Bello wanted in April 2024 after bankrupt attempts to guarantee his arrest, but in September 2024 he appeared at the Abuja headquarters of the Fcc in the company of the governor Usman Ododo and was allowed to be detained.

Before his appearance, the Yahaya Bello consultant had informed the court that his client was located, citing security problems.

However, the EFCC intensified its efforts following a sentence of 20 August 2024 by the Court of Appeal in Abuja, who ordered Bello to present himself for the charge.

The president of the FCC Ola Olukoyede said that Bello retired $ 720,000 from the Kogi state coffers to the early payment of the school fees of his son British Academy, Abuja. [Forefront News]

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