The immediate past Chief Executive of the National Food and Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO), Abdul-Wahab Hanan, who has been accused of causing financial loss to the state has asked the High Court to overturn a freezing order imposed on four of his properties by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO).
In an affidavit filed at the High Court in Accra on December 4, 2025, Abdul-Wahab Hanan arugued that EOCO acted unlawfully by targeting assets he acquired long before he started working at NAFCO.
By this, he argues that EOCO's move violates his constitutional rights.
The affected properties, according to Abdul-Wahab Hanan, include a three-bedroom house at Kpalsi in Tamale, an uncompleted storey building at Gumani, also in Tamale, and a plot at Workers College also in Tamale, all in the Northern Region.
Abdul-Wahab Hanan insists that EOCO obtained the freezing order ex parte, denying him the chance to be heard, contrary to sections 33–35 of the Economic and Organised Crime Act, 2010 (Act 804).
He explained that the Kpalsi house was acquired in 2011 and completed in 2013, that of the Gumani building he stated he has no interest in it and that it belongs to Al-Qarni Enterprise, which was transferred to OSGAF Furniture Enterprise in 2022.
He accused EOCO of freezing the properties without any “legal or factual basis whatsoever.”
Attached below is a copy of the application Abdul-Wahab Hanan filed on December 4, 2025
