Rebecca Omokamo Godwin-Isaac wins as court orders EFCC to pay ₦2m for unlawful account freeze

Rebecca Omokamo Godwin-Isaac and Homadil Realty Limited person secured an important courtroom triumph aft the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory recovered that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission unlawfully restricted the company’s slope account.

Delivering judgement connected 23 April 2026, Justice M. A. Hassan held that the EFCC exceeded its lawful powers by directing Zenith Bank to proceed restricting Homadil Realty’s relationship without archetypal obtaining the required tribunal order.

The substance was decided successful Suit No. FCT/HC/CV/830/2025.

The tribunal recovered that the EFCC could lone enforce an archetypal regularisation for a constricted play and that immoderate continued regularisation required judicial authorisation. The Commission alternatively issued further letters directing that the relationship stay nether a station nary debit restriction.

Justice Hassan described the continued regularisation arsenic a blatant usurpation of Homadil Realty’s law close to spot and reminded instrumentality enforcement agencies that Nigeria is governed by antiauthoritarian pri...