Nigerian secret police, the Department of State Services, will be interrogating other top directors of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in its ongoing probe of its suspended governor, Godwin Emefiele. According to the DSS, other officials lined up are also a Special Adviser to Emefiele, and senior personnel in the CBN Procurement Department, who would be quizzed in the coming week.
Nigerian Secret Police, DSS To Interrogate Top Central Bank Directors, Emefiele’s Special Adviser, Officials In Procurement DepartmentNigerian secret police, the Department of State Services, will be interrogating other top directors of the Central Bank of Nigeria in its ongoing probe of its suspended governor, Godwin Emefiele.
According to PUNCH, Emefiele, his aides and other top directors would be grilled on a number of issues relating to loans worth billions of naira given to farmers under the Fadama scheme, which were believed to have been marred by fraud; the controversial sale of Polaris Bank, which was also allegedly fraught with irregularities; alleged financing of the Indigenous People of Biafra by the suspended CBN boss, and other allegations bordering on forex fraud.
“EMEFIELE, NOW IN DSS CUSTODY – The Department of State Services hereby confirms that Mr Godwin Emefiele, the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria is now in its custody for some investigative reasons. “Emefiele has been flown from Lagos to Abuja after the DSS arrested him. He was fleeing through the land border when he was arrested. He was arrested last night in Lagos,” an authoritative source revealed.
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