TRELOU INVESTMENTS INC. & ANOR V. THE CHAIRMAN OF EFCC

MOHAMMED MUSTAPHA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the ruling of the Federal High Court Abuja Division, in FHC/ABJ/392/2016 delivered on the 14th of January, 2020 by Hon Justice O. E. Abang. 

FACTS IN BRIEF: 

The Appellants filed an application on the 7th of June, 2016 seeking an order among other things, setting aside the ex parte order of interim attachment granted on the 24th of June, 2016 in respect of the property described as Avenue Towers, plot 1391 Tiamiyu Savage Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. The trial Court ruled among other things, that the appellant's application lacked merit, and dismissed it with cost of N300,000. 

Dissatisfied, the Appellants appealed, first by a notice of appeal on eight grounds filed on the 28th of January, 2020, and later an amended notice of appeal, also on eight grounds, filed on the 18th of June, 2021. The grounds of appeal shorn of their respective particulars are as follows: 

GROUNDS OF APPEAL 

GROUND ONE: 

The learn…