The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is seeking the answer on what to do with the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.
The commission, however, stated that the other CBN governors, alongside with the current Godwin Emefiele, would soon be summoned to clarify their roles in the arms scandal. It is reportedly a matter of time before the top bank officials would be invited to clarify their roles in the national financial fraud.
Sanusi was sacked by ex-president Goodluck Jonathan for accusing the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation of not sending $20 billion of oil incomes into the national treasury. Meanwhile, he later became the Emir of Kano, a powerful traditional and religious ruler that carried more weight in the northern part of Nigeria than the CBN.
The operatives of the anti-graft commission are keen on questioning the ruler on the different disbursement of funds to the office of the ex-National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), who is being charged for money laundering and diversion of public funds.
Vanguard reports that the operatives were in a fix on what to do in order to get the respected traditional and religious ruler to speak to them on what he knows about the enormous sums of money taken away from the nation’s apex bank under the guise of security.
The EFCC is deciding whether to summon Sanusi or go to meet him quietly to interrogate him on the money moved from the bank to Dasuki, during his tenure and why such disbursement were never questioned or rejected by him. The commission’s top official had already visited Kano and would probably try to seek an avenue to discuss with the emir quietly and return to Abuja.
Former NSA was indicted by a presidential panel probing the purchase of weapons in the Nigerian army from 2007 to 2015. Dasuki was blamed for using his office to award fictitious arms contracts, but he has denied the allegations, saying that Jonathan approved all the contracts he awarded.