The State Security Service has arrested Kingsley Obiora, the deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria in charge of economic policy, Peoples Gazette can report.

Mr Obiora has now spent four nights in custody under questioning by the security service, which has been looking into allegations of financial mismanagement under Godwin Emefiele, the ousted governor.

Mr Emefiele, who was first appointed as CBN governor in June 2014, has been in SSS since June 10, 2023, a day after he was controversially removed from office by President Bola Tinubu.

While two federal judges have ordered Mr Emefiele’s release, the SSS has continued to find other grounds to hold him in custody, often filing fresh charges to supersede earlier ones for which the top banker had been arraigned.

A source familiar with Mr Obiora’s arrest said he was being targeted as a principal witness against his boss, although The Gazette has asked other sources to corroborate this. Another top CBN official Abbas Masanawa was arrested recently and held in custody, as officials seek to determine the steepness of Mr Emefiele’s alleged corruption.

The Gazette did not promptly hear back from the SSS and CBN about Mr Obiora’s detention, which officials said was not entirely unexpected given his knowledge of CBN’s policy decisions.

Mr Obiora, born March 6, 1976, was a policy chief at the International Monetary Fund and advised former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. He was also an adviser to Mr Emefiele until March 2, 2020, when he was confirmed to his current position as one of CBN’s four deputy governors.

Mr Tinubu, in late July, appointed a special investigator to probe the CBN and other federal agencies suspected of long fostering a culture of public graft. Jim Osayande Obazee resumed work in early August at CBN, officials said.

NapoleonHill:


You go cry taya.

beerfraud:
this post is expected

Yoruba ni Baba

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hisexcellency34:
Did he fund Obi's election?

Bigkoko:
They will hold him at most three months, after Asiwaju is tossed out, even the dss boss go chop breakfast too!!! Na turn by turn. Na Bawa go treat him Bleep up!

EwuuGambia:
It's time for Igbos to go on a killing spree of all the nearest Yaribanzas.

I will start with my tenants.

Nonny95:


Cry ke.

Like say na me DSs arrest or do I look like the family member?

Ordinary Isese activist that they arrested by the order of the Emir you Yorubas carried to high heaven.

But a Nairalander like me can't comment over an injustice being done because you're who?

Get lost bingo

Nonny95:
They jumped the Yoruba acting CBN governor that has disrupted the already damaged economy with his trial by error policies, to arrest a deputy governor.



Government of wayo

EwuuGambia:
It's time for Igbos to go on a killing spree of all the nearest Yaribanzas.

I will start with my tenants.

BOSSkesh:
As expected
Not only him
Everybody in the CBN cabinet those people messed up our economy so bad