Emefiele gets date For Trial
July 25 has been fixed for trial of the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele by the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court.
Emefiele, who has been in custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, is expected to enter his plea before Justice Nicholas Oweibo, following allegations leveled against him by the Department of State Services.
Business Africa recalls that operatives of the security agency had on June 10, stormed Emefiele’s Ikoyi residence in Lagos a day after he was suspended as the governor of the CBN by President Bola Tinubu.
Since his arrest, he has remained in custody, with the DSS maintaining that his detention was based on the order of an Abuja Chief Magistrate Court.
However, a group of human right lawyers, led by Mr. Maxwell Okpara and Ahmed Tijani, faulted his continued detention, even as they accused the DSS of acting in breach of subsisting court judgements.
The legal practitioners equally initiated contempt action against the Director General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Mr. Yusuf Bichi.
Meanwhile, the secret police, in the two-count charge marked: FHC/L/437/2023, accused Emefiele of unlawfully possessing one single barrel shot gun (Jojeff Magnum 8371) without licence, and thereby committed an offence under Section 4 of the Firearms Laws of the Federation 2004 and punishable under Section 27 (1) (b) (i) of the same act.
He was equally accused of having in his possession, 123 rounds of live ammunition (catridges) without licence.
The security agency told the court that the items were recovered when it searched Emefiele’s residence at No.3B Iru Close, Ikoyi, Lagos.
