Lawyers to suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, have claimed that the Department of State Service (DSS) is planning to re-arrest their client despite the bail granted him by a Federal High Court in Lagos.
Gatekeepers News reports that the lead counsel for the embattled and suspended CBN boss, Joseph Daudu, made the claim after the court’s ruling on Tuesday.
Earlier on Tuesday, Justice Nicholas Oweibo admitted Emefiele to bail in the sum of N20m and ordered that he be remanded at the correctional centre pending the fulfilment of the bail conditions.
Shortly after the ruling, DSS operatives strategically positioned their Hilux Pick Up van used to transport Emefiele to court, in a manner suggesting that they wanted to take him back to their detention centre.
This prompted Daudu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), and other lawyers of Emefiele to raise an alarm about their client’s ‘planned re-arrest’ by the secret police.
As of the time of filing this report, the suspended CBN governor is still holed up inside the courtroom with his lawyers.
