In beating deadline, Department of State Services (DSS), has dragged the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, to court.
Straightnews published that Justice Hamza Muazu of Abuja High Court on Thursday, July 13, ruling in a fundamental human rights suit filed by Emefiele, ordered the DSS to charge Emefiele to court within one week or set him free.
DSS spokesman, Peter Afunanya, confirmed on Thursday night that Emefiele has been charged to court in compliance with the court order.
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“The public may recall that the Service had, in 2022, applied for a Court Order to detain him in respect of a criminal investigation. Though he obtained a restraining order from an FCT High Court, the Service, however, arrested him in June, 2023, on the strength of suspected fresh criminal infractions/information, one of which forms the basis for his current prosecution.
“The Service assures the public of professionalism, justice and fairness in handling this matter and indeed the discharge of its duties within the confines of the law,” Afunanya said.
