The
question on the lips of Nigerians is: who is this person? What is so special
about him that he cannot even be named? Why can’t he be brought out for the
public to see the person who has helped in sending thousands of Nigerians to
their early graves while the nation is faced with the greatest threat to her
unity since the Nigerian civil war nearly fifty years ago? Why has the CBN
remained mute about this issue, since its name is being dragged to the mud? Why
hasn’t the CBN seen it fit to tell Nigerians what it knows about this matter?
Happily,
the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a social crusader
organization, has taken up the gauntlet and given the CBN a fourteen-day
ultimatum, based on the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. SERAP demands
information about the persons involved in the money laundering and sponsorship
of Boko Haram sect. A statement from the group said the CBN Governor, Mr Godwin
Emefiele, is required to explain the exact nature of any such transactions.
We commend
SERAP for wading into this matter clinging to the force of the FOIA. We are
waiting patiently to see how the CBN under a new manager, Emefiele, will
respond to this challenge. It will be a major metric for measuring the
seriousness he attaches to his work and the need to keep the Bank clean of
scandals.
We are
greatly worried that the Presidency and the security agencies have chosen to
keep the Nigerian public in the dark about the truth or otherwise of this
individual’s involvement.
Although
the very thought that an individual in the top echelon of Nigeria’s ultimate
Bank and regulator of the financial system will become a bankroller of our
enemy, yet it is only such a high level conspiracy that can make Boko Haram to
grow into the monster it has become.
When this
fellow is identified, tried and convicted, we will expect him to face the full
wrath of the law. - VANGUARD
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