Rinu Oduala, a frontline #EndSARS protester, has threatened to sue Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for unlawfully freezing her bank account for three months.
Bolatito Oduala, popularly known as Rinu, issued the threat in her tweet reacting to the ruling of an Abuja court setting aside the freezing order on Wednesday.
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She said the CBN unlawfully froze their accounts based on suspected involvement in money laundering and terrorism but failed to investigate the allegation for three months.
The Twitter user stated;
It’s time to sue CBN for the unlawful freeze of my accounts. I was accused of money laundering & terrorism but no investigations were done in the past 3 months.
This was purely an act of intimidation! I have informed my lawyers, Falana and Falana Chambers & we will be suing.
It’s time to sue CBN for the unlawful freeze of my accounts.
I was accused of money laundering & terrorism but no investigations were done in the past 3 months. This was purely an act of intimidation!
I have informed my lawyers, Falana and Falana Chambers & we will be suing!✌🏾
— Rinu #EndSARS🔥🔫 (@SavvyRinu) February 10, 2021
The undergraduate is also a youth representative on the investigative panel set up by Lagos State Government in the aftermath of the October 2020 #EndSARS protests to probe cases of police brutality.
Rinu and the 19 others slammed with the freezing order last November, played active roles in the #EndSARS demonstrations against police brutality and bad governance.
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The protests led to the proscription of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a tactical unit of the police, whose unlawful activities triggered the nationwide #EndSARS protests.
It would be recalled that a judge of Federal High Court in Abuja, Ahmed Mohammed, on November 4, granted CBN’s ex parte application to freeze the accounts of the 20 protesters for 90 days.
CBN told the judge it needed the 90 days period to investigate the account holders for money laundering and terrorism offences.
The order expired on February 2 with no investigation done by the CBN throughout the active period of the order. The account of the 20 defendants remained frozen despite the expiration of the order.
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