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Court Stops DSS From Arresting CBN Gov. Godwin Emefiele
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Court Stops DSS From Arresting CBN Gov. Godwin Emefiele 

The DSS had reportedly filed a suit on December 7, 2022, seeking to arrest the CBN governor.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has reportedly stopped the Department of State Services from arresting the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, over allegations bothering on “acts of financing terrorism, fraudulent activities and economic crimes of national security dimension.”

The DSS had reportedly filed a suit on December 7, 2022, seeking to arrest the CBN governor. Justice J.T Tsoho gave the ruling declining to grant the application for the governor’s arrest on December 9, 2022.

Refusing to grant the DSS request, the judge said, “In the light of the foregoing reasons, I decline to grant this application ex parte. If the applicant believes that the evidence available to it so far is sufficient, then it can as well arrest and detain the applicant, even without the order of the court. If however, the applicant desires to still pursue this application, then it should place the respondent on notice considering the sensitive public office that he occupies.”

Meanwhile, a coalition of human rights activists, the Arewa Youth Consultative Movement, and public interest lawyers, operating under the aegis of the Coalition of National Interest Defenders, on Monday expressed concern over a plot by the Department of State Service to move the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele for allegedly financing terrorism.

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