By Vivian Okejeme
The suspended former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, will on July 25 be arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.
The detained Emefiele will be arraigned on two count charge of possession of a pump action rifle and one hundred and twenty three rounds of live cartridges.
The arraignment which will be coming up before Justice Nicholas Oweibo, has attracted so much condemnation from members of the public and civil society organizations following the filing of charges of possession of a pump action rifle after several months of accusation and six weeks of detention.
Recall that Justice M.A. Hassan of the FCT High Court restrained the Department of State Services from arresting Mr. Emefiele but the service still went ahead to arrest him and claimed it had fresh information in support of their allegations of terrorism against Mr. Emefiele only to charge him with possession of a pump action rifle.
Also in a tweet on their official twitter handle in reaction to committal proceedings filed against the Director General of the Service, the DSS had alleged that it seemed IPOB was defending on of their own while referring to Mr. Maxwell Opara, one of the lawyers to detained IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu, who led the team of lawyers who filed the Form 48 against the Director General of the Service.
Meanwhile, there is still growing calls for the removal of Mr. Bichi from office due to his serial violation and disregard of courts judgments, the worsening security situations and politicization of the Service.
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