A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos
on Friday granted an order restraining the State Security Services and
the Inspector General of Police, Mallam Mohammed Abubakar, and all the
agencies of the Federal Government from arresting the suspended governor
of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido Sanusi.
Justice Ibrahim Buba granted the order
in chamber after hearing Sanusi’s ex parte application shortly after it
was duly filed on Friday.
The order is to subsist pending the
hearing of the suit. The court adjourned till February 28, before which
time parties in the suit were expected to have been served.
The court order came as the suspended
CBN governor accused President Goodluck Jonathan administration of
shielding corrupt government officials.
In an interview granted the Voice of America (Hausa Service),
shortly after his suspension on Thursday, Sanusi accused the
President of doing nothing to punish corrupt officials in his cabinet.
He cited the case of the Minister of
Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, who he said,
publicly admitted that she spent N3.5bn of tax-payers’ money on
kerosene subsidy without appropriation, on live television.
He said, “The minister of Petroleum
Resources appeared before the National Assembly in front of television
cameras and admitted that she spent N3.5bn of tax-payers’ money on
kerosene subsidy without appropriation, nothing was done.”.
The former CBN governor had vowed to
pursue the matter in court to safeguard the bank’s autonomy and protect
the nation’s economy against abuse of power shortly after the President
suspended him on Thursday.
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