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In his address, Etuk called on the DSS not to allow politicians to influence its professional ethics, noting that the charges were an affront against the administration of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
“Our attention was once again drawn to the recent motion ex parte brought before a Federal High Court in Abuja by men of the DSS wherein they sought relief to arrest and detain the CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, based on trumped-up charges of financing terrorism, economic crime and crime of national security. This motion was surprisingly done without concrete evidence to prove the frivolous allegations against the workaholic CBN governor that the country cannot forget easily, based on his several transformed economic and monetary policies approved by President Buhari for implementation.
“We are surprised to note the division that exists among top government officials of this regime. While the CBN governor was in faraway US on the entourage of President Buhari, another arm is seeking his arrest back home on trumped-up charges without the consent of the President. The questions that beg for answer is, who gave such directives. Is Mr. President aware of this allegation before moving in to effect arrest via a court order? On whose interest is the DSS really working?
“The civil society movement has great respect for the DG SSS, who we know as a fine gentleman, but we feel that the trumped-up charges are a product of unfounded petition, generated by unscrupulous politicians whose fraudulent activities had been cut short by the wonderful and brilliant policies of the central bank governor. We wonder why they left their main mandate and allowed the troubled political class to influence their professional ethics.
“The CBN governor has served diligently for seven years and the DSS (for) this period didn’t discover this until the recently introduced monetary policy, a policy that majorly affects most of our political class. This is an affront on the government of President Buhari, and we implore (the) Presidency to get to the root of the move aimed to further ridicule and bring to disrepute the office of the President.
