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PETER OLABISI IGE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the Ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja Division delivered on the 27th day of June, 2016 wherein the following orders were made against the Appellant viz:-
"The Central Bank of Nigeria is an authority created by an Act of the parliament and so enjoined to obey the Constitution which is the ground norm. Even if Section 80 of the 1999 Constitution say what the Garnishee has submitted which I do not agree the fact that Section 287 comes after Section 80 of the 1999 Constitution, the later provision has a stronger applicability.
In the circumstances, I hereby make the Garnishee order nisi dated 1st April, 2015 absolute and direct as follows:-
(1) The Garnishee shall pay over the Judgment debt of $3,188,078,505.96 (Three Billion, One Hundred and Eighty-Eight Million, Seventy-Eighty Thousand, Five Hundred and Five Dollars, Ninety-Six Cents) to the Local Governments in Nigeria to be warehoused in the Central…