Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, on Tuesday said that it is a misnomer to call the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, a whistle blower.<\/p>\n
Maku, who spoke at the National Assembly after defending the 2014 budget of his ministry, noted that no governor of any country\u2019s apex bank could act as a whistle blower.<\/p>\n
He said that if Sanusi had moved from being CBN Governor to a whistle blower, it becomes a problem for the country.<\/p>\n
The minister said that President Goodluck Jonathan did not query Sanusi because he raised issues about the alleged missing $20 billion in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cSanusi is not a whistle blower by governor of Central Bank of Nigeria. That perception is fed by negative reports from the media.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have not heard in any nation where the central bank governor is a whistle blower. He is the manager of the nation\u2019s monetary policies as an adviser to the President of Nigeria on those issues. So the fact that he has moved from being the CBN governor to whistle blowing is a problem in itself.<\/p>\n
\u201dBut the reality of what has happened is that there are issues with the account of CBN of 2012 as the President explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Financial Reporting Council has said that there are issues that should be addressed so the President returned it back to the council and the council again returned it with some of the items with questions.<\/p>\n
\u201dCBN is the nerve centre of the nation\u2019s financial system, if there are problems with it, it means that it can generate a lot of problems in the banking system and the economy and so the President has been trying to sort this out and between him and the CBN governor there have been communications since April 2013. So it has nothing to do with what my brother Sanusi had said relating to the NNPC. There had been ongoing conversation between them.<\/p>\n
\u201dUnfortunately the CBN governor is also the chairman of the board and he can\u2019t sit in a matter he is being investigated for.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo what the President has done by appointing officer of the CBN was to ask the governor to step aside pending the outcome of the investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201dAre we saying that the queries that were raised relating to the CBN account were false?<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the end if he is found not guilty he still has his tenure to run.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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