Group blasts Oshiomhole over CBN illegal recruitment
- Governor Adams Oshiomhole has come under heavy bashing over his recent comment on the unlawful recruitment of relatives of top government into the CBN
- A civil society group has stated that that the apex bank has illegally recruited 909 privileged Nigerian
- The group asked Godwin Emefiele, the CBN governor to resign
Governor Adams Oshiomhole has come under heavy criticisms over his recent statement on the secret recruitment of relatives of the ruling All Progressives Congress into top positions in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Oshiomhole recently described those who have called for the removal of Godwin Emefiele, the CBN governos as faceless manipulators and palmwine drinkers.
The Advocacy for Societal Rights Advancement and Development Initiative (ASRADI), a civil society organisation, has reacted to the statement by the governor adding that "Oshiomhole is the governor of a state that looks, dresses, talks and behaves like a palm wine tapper.”
The group's executive director, Deolu Oyinlola, stated that at the last count, Emefiele has secretly employed 909 privileged Nigerians into the apex bank without advertising a single vacancy.
The statement read: "In order for the public to decide who – between those calling for Emefiele’s removal and the classless state governor – is politicising what ASRADI believes is a straight forward case of abuse of office and betrayal of public trust, we would like to pose the following questions:
"Is it ‘faceless and shadowy’ groups (according to the loose cannon and his fake coalition of 'CSOs') that forced Emefiele to unlawfully release raw cash of forty seven million dollars ($47million) in 17 suit cases to Sambo Dasuki as part of what is now famously known as Dasukigate?
"Is a CBN governor who is suspected to be deeply involved in what, clearly, is money laundering, standing on any moral high ground to remain in that office?
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“Is it our loquacious pigmy’s ‘palm wine drinkers’ that scandalously employed the sons, daughters, nephews, nieces, wards of people like President Muhammadu Buhari, former vice president Abubakar Atiku, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’Abba.
"Internal affairs minister, Abdulrahman Dambazzau; inspector general of police, Solomon Arase; comptroller general of customs, Hameed All; NNPC group managing director, Ibe Kachikwu; governor of Adamawa state, the deputy governors of Delta and Bayelsa states; to mention but a few?
“At the last count, Emefiele has secretly employed 909 privileged Nigerians without advertising a single vacancy! Which CSO worthy of that appellation would support such a patently anomalous and egregiously corrupt exercise?
"Little wonder, no individual’s name was associated with a release that was attributed to a phoney ‘coalition of CSOs! It is, in all probability, safe to conclude that Emefiele and the state governor in question – between them – created the ‘coalition’ out of desperation.”
“It is a shame and an embarrassment for someone who became governor of a state based on a reputation of being a comrade, would curiously make it his business to be defending the indefensible so senselessly."
The group advised the CBN boss to resign and turn himself in at the offices of the anti-graft agency saying: "If the Buhari administration’s change mantra is to be taken seriously, Emefiele must be shown the exit door without further delay by invoking the relevant portions of the CBN Act 2007 (particularly, section 11(2)(c) thereof)."
In a related development, some civil society leaders and lawyers have called for the withdrawal of employment offers to children of former past and serving government officials, ministers, a nephew of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Source: Legit.ng
