Notwithstanding the reply by the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to president Goodluck Jonathan on the allegation of financial recklessness on which basis he was suspended from office, Strong indications emerged yesterday that President Goodluck Jonathan may soon commence a probe into his tenure.
The suspended Central Bank governor weekend reacted to the 35 allegations levelled against him by the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, FRCN, saying he saw the FRCN Briefing Note for the first time when it was attached to his suspension letter.
Sanusi further stated that each of the allegations was false, unfounded, malicious and fabricated to mislead the President, adding that if the CBN had received the FRCN Briefing Note prepared in June 2013, all misconceptions, misrepresentations, erroneous inferences would have been cleared.
Sanusi, also called on President Goodluck Jonathan to revisit and redress his suspension, urging the President to apply same rationale and rigour to other agencies of government with serious allegations and queries against them.
The suspended CBN governor called on the President to ask other agencies that had been queried of financial impropriety to provide responses and explanation with the same level of clarity and transparency as he had done.
But this appears not to have made any difference as the Federal Government especially against the allegation by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), alleging that a fraudulent N48 billion contract was awarded to a leader of the APC, while N5 billion was further paid to another stalwart of the party as consultancy fee.
The PDP called for a detailed forensic audit of all the accounts and financial activities of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 2009 till date, stressing that in carrying out the probe, the audit must establish and publish all movement of monies from the CBN accounts, such as contract sums, donations and other extra budgetary spending under the suspended CBN governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.
It will be recalled that following the suspension of Sanusi as CBN governor last month, the Presidency explained that his suspension was not related to witch hunt, but alleged cases of impunity, incompetence, non-challance , fraud, wastefulness, and gross abuse of and non-compliance with provisions of the Public Procurement Act 2007.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe, had in a statement explained that Sanusi’s sack by President Goodluck Jonathan was also not a deviation from the anti-corruption drive of the present administration.
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