On November 4, a judge at a federal high court in Abuja named Inyang Ekwo said that the lawmaker's properties should be taken away temporarily.
The judge told the agency that fights corruption to put the interim forfeiture in a national newspaper within seven days of the order.
People who are interested in the properties should go to court within 14 days of the notice coming out and explain why they shouldn't be given permanently to the federal government. Ten properties in Enugu, three in the United States (US), two in the United Kingdom (UK), one in Lagos, nine in Dubai, and 15 in the federal capital territory are included in the interim forfeiture order. He asked the court to take the properties off the list that the EFCC had made until the case was over.
Also, Kingsley Ugwu, a lawyer, asked the court to remove Uni-Medical HealthCare Limited, Plot 680 and 681 Independence Layout, Enugu, from the property that the EFCC said belonged to Ekweremadu.
He said that his client, who is currently living in the house, is "the legal owner and a bona fide buyer for value who didn't know of any other interest."
The judge put the case off until December 15 and told Sylvanus Tahir, the top lawyer for the EFCC, to respond to the processes. At the court session on Monday, Amah Kalu, a litigation secretary from the law office of C.I. Igbinedion, said in an affidavit that the Anambra state government gave him permission to recover "House No. 14/16 Charles Street GRA, Enugu," which the EFCC said belonged to Ekweremadu.
Kalu said that after Ekeremadu said in 2018 that he owned the property in question, the Anambra state government sued the senator on March 4, 2022, in the high court in Enugu.
