The court also ordered the forfeiture of 15 properties recovered from Idris by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Kano and Abuja.

Kano City Mall/Al Ikhlas Shopping Mall at Mandwawarti, Kano; one storey Shopping Complex at Ladanai, Kano; Corner Shops at Ladanai, Kano; a duplex at Karsana, Abuja; Royal Duplex at Deneji Quarters, Kano; and a duplex at Plot 271, New Jersey Street, Efab Blue Fountain Estate, Abuja are among the properties linked to the former AGF.

The EFCC had filed a 14-count charge against Idris and others for stealing and laundering N109 billion.

The order was issued by the presiding Judge, Justice M.A Hassan, on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, while ruling on the EFCC’s motion exparte no. M/1149/2022.

Wilson Uwujaren, the anti-graft agency’s spokesman, revealed this in a statement.

In the motion, the Commission asked the Court for an order of interim attachment/ forfeiture of the properties listed in the application’s Schedule, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive case in Charge No. FCT, HC/CR/299/2022, Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Ahmed Idris and Others.

The Commission had requested the court to grant among others, an Order approving the interim “management of the assets and properties in the Schedule to this application to the applicant”, an order “to open an interest yielding account where monies realised from the management of the assets and properties of the persons stated in the Schedule to this application shall be paid”, and an order “freezing the Bank Accounts of the persons referred to as account holders/ or the bank accounts set out in the Schedule to this application”, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive case.

Justice Hassan granted the motion as prayed but further ordered that the recovery account sought to be opened by the applicant, “shall be in the name of the Commission as Recovery Account and the details of the Account shall be reported back to the Court within one week of opening”.

In the interim, nine properties associated with the second respondent, Mohammed Kudu Usman, were forfeited in Abuja, Niger, and Nasarawa States.

Plots of land with shops in Niger State’s Chanchaga Local Government Area, 37 hectares of farmland with livestock along Niger State’s Minna-Bida Road, bungalow flats at Gwarimpa, Abuja, bungalow buildings at Masaka, Nasarawa State, plots of land at Dutse Alhaji Abuja, and 13 plots of land at Integrated City, Minna, Niger State.