Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), is set to appear before the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on July 25.
The embattled CBN boss, who has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS), will enter his plea before Justice Nicholas Oweibo, responding to the allegations leveled against him by the DSS.
The situation began on June 10 when DSS operatives raided Emefiele’s Ikoyi residence in Lagos, just a day after his suspension as the CBN governor by President Bola Tinubu.
Since his arrest, he has remained in custody, with the DSS asserting that his detention was authorized by an Abuja Chief Magistrate Court.
However, a consortium of human rights lawyers, led by Mr. Maxwell Okpara and Ahmed Tijani, has challenged his prolonged detention, accusing the DSS of acting in breach of court judgments. They have taken legal action, initiating contempt proceedings against the Director-General of the DSS, Mr. Yusuf Bichi.
The DSS has filed a two-count charge against Emefiele, accusing him of unlawfully possessing a single barrel shotgun without a license, and being in possession of 123 rounds of live ammunition without a license.
