After a few days in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS), the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in charge of Economic Policy, Kingsley Obiora, has been released.
Obiora was arrested by the DSS on Wednesday as part of clampdown on senior officials of the apex bank which began with the suspended Governor, Godwin Emefiele.
The others are Sa’adatu Ramalan Yero and the recently sacked NIRSAL CEO, Abbas Masanawa.
Per Daily Trust report, a source within the CBN alleged that the Special Investigations Panel set up by President Bola Tinubu to investigate the tenure of Emefiele might be instrumental to the invitation Obiora received from the DSS. The report says they plan to use him as a witness against Emefiele.
The newspaper reported that the Jim Obazee-led special panel has been questioning the deputy governors of the CBN, as well as other senior officials of the bank, as part of an ongoing audit.