The suspended governor of the central bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, will on July 25, appear before the Lagos division of the federal high court to enter his plea before justice Nicholas Oweibo, following allegations the department of state services, DSS, levelled against him.
It will be recalled that operatives of the security agency had arrested Emefiele on June 10 and had since then remained him in custody, claiming his detention was based on the order of an Abuja chief magistrate court.
However, a consortium of human right lawyers, led by maxwell Okpara and Ahmed Tijani, faulted his continued detention, even as they accused the DSS of acting in breach of subsisting court judgements.
Meanwhile, the dss, in the two-count charge accused Emefiele of unlawfully possessing one single barrel shot gun and 123 rounds of live ammunition (cartridges) without licence.
The security agency told the court that the items were recovered when it searched Emefiele’s residence at no.3b Iru close, Ikoyi, Lagos.