- CBN Gov Godwin Emefiele Resumes Duty After Annual Leave.
- Emefiele Not Arrested – DSS
On Monday, the Department of State Services (DSS) said that its agents did not “invade” the CBN office and did not take the governor of the central bank into custody.
“The Department of State Services (DSS) has heard the false rumour that its agents broke into the Central Bank of Nigeria today (16/1/23) and arrested the bank’s governor. Peter Afunanya, a spokesman for the DSS, said in a statement that this is not true and could lead people astray.
The secret police tried to get a court in Abuja to arrest Emefiele for allegedly funding terrorism and committing economic crimes against national security, but Justice Maryam Hassan of the Federal Capital Territory High Court Abuja stopped them.
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The judge then said that the DSS couldn’t arrest, invite, or hold Emefiele. He also said that the DSS’s claims that the CBN governor was a terrorist were vindictive, cruel, oppressive, void, and had no effect.
Some Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) had asked the secret police to follow the court’s order and stop trying to arrest the head of the national bank. Femi Falana (SAN), a human rights lawyer, said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics that the DSS does not need a court order to arrest the CBN governor if it has solid evidence against him.
He said that Nigeria’s constitution says that the head of the central bank is not one of the people who have immunity.
Falana also said that the DSS’s accusations against Emefiele were embarrassing. He said that this kind of thing could only happen in the Banana Republic, where the governor of the top bank would be accused of a serious crime like funding terrorism.
“Has the government thought about how much of an effect a wanted central bank governor would have on the economy?
The senior lawyer said, “I am completely shocked that the President of the country has not stepped in to either call the state security to order or tell Mr. Emefiele to come back to the country or be fired.”
Falana said that the claim that Emefiele paid for terrorism should not be thrown out.
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Meanwhile, Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), went back to work on Monday after his annual trip abroad.
In a statement, Osita Nwanisobi, who is in charge of corporate communications at CBN, said this.
“The head of the central bank got back to work with renewed vigour” before the first Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting of the year, which was set for January 23 and 24 of 2023.
“Mr. Emefiele is still committed to doing the job he was given in line with his oath of office and President Muhammadu Buhari’s policy direction.”
