Breaking: FG asks court to freeze Ekweremadu’s undeclared assets

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- A motion has been file by the federal government for Ekweremadu's undeclared assets to be frozen

- The deputy Senate president is being accused of not declaring his assets

The federal government has filed a motion at the Federal High Court in Abuja to freeze the undeclared assets belonging to deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu.

The motion was filed on Wednesday, March 21.

Vanguard reports that the government applied for an interim court order “temporarily attaching/forfeiting the properties listed in Schedule B hereunder, to the Federal Government of Nigeria, pending the conclusion of further inquiry/investigation by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property and/or possible arraignment of the Respondent."

Festus Keyamo (SAN) filed the motion on behalf of the federal government.

It was reported that nine of the properties are in Nigeria, two are in London, eight in Dubai while three in the United States of America.

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NAIJ.com had reported that Ekweremadu raised serious allegation against Okoi Obono-Obla who is an aide to President Muhammadu Buhari accusing him and some other persons of embarking on smear campaign.

The Cable reports that the Ekweremadu in a statement issued on his behalf by Uche Anichukwu, his spokesman, claimed that Innocent Umezulike, a former chief judge in Enugu state, stole his will and doctored it.

Reports had claimed that the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) had written the government of the United Arab Emirates and the United States of America regarding some property said to belong to the deputy Senate president.

The report also claimed that the Nigerian government reportedly wrote to the Special Fraud Unit, Kingdom over the lawmaker through its chairman, Tunde Fowler.

But in reaction to the OAGF's claim, the FIRS described the information as false. A top source at the revenue service said FIRS challenged that such letters be published as verification to the previous publication.

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