Justice J.T Tsoho of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has stopped the Department of State Services, DSS, 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 judge gave the ruling declining to grant the DSS application for the governor’s arrest on Monday, December I9, 2022.
The DSS had reportedly filed a suit on December 7, 2022, seeking to arrest the CBN governor.
The suit, with reference number FHC/Abj/CS/2255/2022, had State Security Services as the applicant.
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.”