The Federal Government has launched a search and freeze campaign for all assets of the 13 alleged ‘Boko Haram’ sponsors.
These sponsors have been added to Nigeria’s blacklist of terrorists and terrorism sponsors.
A circular obtained yesterday showed that the coordinated search was a sequel to the indictment of these sponsors and the addition of their names to the Nigeria Sanctions List, a master list of all persons and institutions blacklisted for terrorism.
The Nigeria Sanctions List is under the supervision of the Nigeria Sanctions Committee, a multi-agency committee created by the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022.
The search and freeze campaign involved all national enforcement agencies and the regulated private sector entities with a specific mandate to immediately track, discover and freeze all funds, physical and financial assets, businesses, organizations, and all other related entities to the 13 alleged Boko Haram sponsors.
Acting in sync with the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), the coordinating secretariat of the Nigeria Sanctions Committee, Nigeria’s apex capital market regulator, the Securities, and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday directed all capital market operators to immediately search for and freeze all assets in the names of the 13 alleged Boko Haram sponsors.
The blacklisted alleged terrorism sponsors included 10 individuals and three entities. They are Abdurrahman Musa Ado, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan, Muhammad Ibrahim Isah, Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Surajo Abubakar Mohammad, Fannami Alhaji Bukar, Muhammed Musa, Sahabi Ismail, Mohammed Saleh Buba, Alin Yar Yaya General Enterprises, Are Nigeria Limited and Suhailah Bashir General Enterprises.
