Mahmoud Yabo, a Litigation Secretary in the Law Firm of M.M. Yabo & Co, Al-huda Chambers, No. 11, Kaduna Road, Sokoto. Annexed to the supporting affidavit, are 7 exhibits marked as Exhibits ‘A’, ‘A1’, ‘B’, ‘B1’, ‘C’, ‘D’, and ‘D1’ respectively. In opposing the grant of this application, the Respondents filed a 21 paragraphs counter affidavit deposed to by one Coker Oyegunle one of the Investigation Officers attached to Advance Fee Fraud Section of the 1 st Respondent’s Sokoto Zonal Office. Annexed to the counter affidavit of the Respondents, are 4 exhibits marked as Exhibit EFCC1, EFCC2, EFCC3 and EFCC4 respectively. Upon being served with the Respondents’ counter affidavit, the Applicant filed a further and better affidavit of 20 paragraphs vide Motion seeking extension of time within which to file a further and better affidavit among others and granted on the 23/2/2021. After the filing of all the foregoing processes by parties, counsel to both Applicant and Respondents adopted their respective written addresses on 23/2/2021 as their respective legal submissions in respect of this application. While counsel to the Applicant urge the court to grant all the reliefs sought in this application, counsel to the Respondents on the other hand urge the court to dismiss the application for lack of merit. The matter was thereafter adjourned for Judgment which could not delivered within time due to the nationwide strike embarked upon by JUSUN. Page 3 of 12

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